endow

Other forms of endow

past tense

endowed·

present participle

endowing·

third person

endows·

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 endow

What does endow mean?

endow means "give qualities or abilities to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in endow?

endow has 2 syllables: en-dow. The stress falls on "dow". In IPA it is /ɛnˈdaʊ/.

What is another word for endow?

Close synonyms include indue, gift, empower, invest, endue. 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 endow a common word?

endow 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 endow?

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