entrust

Other forms of entrust

past tense

entrusted·

present participle

entrusting·

third person

entrusts·

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 entrust

What does entrust mean?

entrust means "confer a trust upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in entrust?

entrust has 2 syllables: en-trust. The stress falls on "trust". In IPA it is /ɛnˈtɹʌst/.

What is another word for entrust?

Close synonyms include intrust, trust, confide, commit, leave. 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 entrust a common word?

entrust is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 entrust?

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