emerge

Other forms of emerge

past tense

emerged·

present participle

emerging·

third person

emerges·

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 emerge

What does emerge mean?

emerge means "come out into view, as from concealment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emerge?

emerge has 2 syllables: e-merge. The stress falls on "merge". In IPA it is /ɪˈmɝdʒ/.

What is another word for emerge?

Close synonyms include issue, come out, come forth, go forth, egress. 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 emerge a common word?

emerge 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 emerge?

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