dispense

Other forms of dispense

past tense

dispensed·

present participle

dispensing·

third person

dispenses·

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 dispense

What does dispense mean?

dispense means "administer or bestow, as in small portions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dispense?

dispense has 2 syllables: di-spense. The stress falls on "spense". In IPA it is /dɪˈspɛns/.

What is another word for dispense?

Close synonyms include distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel 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 dispense a common word?

dispense is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 dispense?

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