ensnare

Other forms of ensnare

past tense

ensnared·

present participle

ensnaring·

third person

ensnares·

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 ensnare

What does ensnare mean?

ensnare means "take or catch as if in a snare or trap". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ensnare?

ensnare has 2 syllables: en-snare. The stress falls on "snare". In IPA it is /ɪnˈsnɛɹ/.

What is another word for ensnare?

Close synonyms include entrap, frame, set up, trap, entrap. 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 ensnare a common word?

ensnare 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 ensnare?

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