dispel

Other forms of dispel

past tense or participle

dispelled

present participle

dispelling

third person

dispels·

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 dispel

What does dispel mean?

dispel means "force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dispel?

dispel has 2 syllables: di-spel. The stress falls on "spel". In IPA it is /dɪˈspɛl/.

What is another word for dispel?

Close synonyms include chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, drive off. 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 dispel a common word?

dispel 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 dispel?

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