entitle

Other forms of entitle

past tense

entitled·

present participle

entitling·

third person

entitles·

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 entitle

What does entitle mean?

entitle means "give the right to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in entitle?

entitle has 3 syllables: en-ti-tle. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ɛnˈtaɪtəl/.

What is another word for entitle?

Close synonyms include title, ennoble, gentle. 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 entitle a common word?

entitle 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 entitle?

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