engender

Other forms of engender

past tense

engenderred·

present participle

engenderring·

third person

engenders·

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 engender

What does engender mean?

engender means "call forth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in engender?

engender has 3 syllables: en-gen-der. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /ɛnˈdʒɛndɚ/.

What is another word for engender?

Close synonyms include breed, spawn, beget, get, father. 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 engender a common word?

engender 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 engender?

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