educe

Other forms of educe

past tense

educed·

present participle

educing·

third person

educes·

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 educe

What does educe mean?

educe means "deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in educe?

educe has 2 syllables: e-duce. The stress falls on "duce".

What is another word for educe?

Close synonyms include evoke, elicit, extract, draw out, derive. 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 educe a common word?

educe 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.