disperse

Other forms of disperse

past tense

dispersed·

present participle

dispersing·

third person

disperses·

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 disperse

What does disperse mean?

disperse means "distribute loosely". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disperse?

disperse has 2 syllables: di-sperse. The stress falls on "sperse". In IPA it is /dɪˈspɝs/.

What is another word for disperse?

Close synonyms include scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, dissipate. 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 disperse a common word?

disperse 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 disperse?

1 word rhymes with disperse. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.