enter

Other forms of enter

past tense

enterred·

present participle

enterring·

third person

enters·

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 enter

What does enter mean?

enter means "to come or go into". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enter?

enter has 2 syllables: en-ter. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /ˈɛntɚ/.

What is another word for enter?

Close synonyms include come in, get into, get in, go into, go in. 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.

What is the opposite of enter?

The recorded antonyms are exit, drop out.

Is enter a common word?

enter is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.