disentangle

Other forms of disentangle

past tense

disentangled·

present participle

disentangling·

third person

disentangles·

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 disentangle

What does disentangle mean?

disentangle means "release from entanglement of difficulty". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disentangle?

disentangle has 4 syllables: dis-en-tan-gle. The stress falls on "tan". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsənˈtæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for disentangle?

Close synonyms include extricate, untangle, disencumber, unsnarl, straighten 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.

What is the opposite of disentangle?

The recorded antonyms are entangle.

Is disentangle a common word?

disentangle 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 disentangle?

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