empower

Other forms of empower

past tense

empowerred·

present participle

empowerring·

third person

empowers·

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 empower

What does empower mean?

empower means "give or delegate power or authority to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in empower?

empower has 3 syllables: em-po-wer. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ɪmˈpaʊɚ/.

What is another word for empower?

Close synonyms include authorise, authorize, endow, indue, gift. 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 empower a common word?

empower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 empower?

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