discern

Other forms of discern

past tense

discerned·

present participle

discerning·

third person

discerns·

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 discern

What does discern mean?

discern means "detect with the senses".

How many syllables are in discern?

discern has 2 syllables: di-scern. The stress falls on "scern". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɝn/.

What is another word for discern?

Close synonyms include spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, pick out. 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 discern a common word?

discern is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 discern?

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