enact

Other forms of enact

past tense

enacted·

present participle

enacting·

third person

enacts·

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 enact

What does enact mean?

enact means "order by virtue of superior authority; decree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enact?

enact has 2 syllables: e-nact. The stress falls on "nact". In IPA it is /ɪˈnækt/.

What is another word for enact?

Close synonyms include ordain, reenact, act out. 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 enact a common word?

enact 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 enact?

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