emphasize

Other forms of emphasize

past tense

emphasized·

present participle

emphasizing·

third person

emphasizes·

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 emphasize

What does emphasize mean?

emphasize means "to stress, single out as important". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emphasize?

emphasize has 3 syllables: em-pha-size. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz/.

What is another word for emphasize?

Close synonyms include stress, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate. 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 emphasize a common word?

emphasize 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 emphasize?

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