devolve

Other forms of devolve

past tense

devolved·

present participle

devolving·

third person

devolves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about devolve

What does devolve mean?

devolve means "pass on or delegate to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devolve?

devolve has 2 syllables: de-volve. The stress falls on "volve". In IPA it is /dɪˈvɑlv/.

What is another word for devolve?

Close synonyms include fall, return, pass, deteriorate, drop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devolve a common word?

devolve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with devolve?

3 words rhyme with devolve. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.