enunciate

Other forms of enunciate

past tense

enunciated·

present participle

enunciating·

third person

enunciates·

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 enunciate

What does enunciate mean?

enunciate means "speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enunciate?

enunciate has 4 syllables: e-nun-ci-ate. The stress falls on "nun". In IPA it is /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for enunciate?

Close synonyms include pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, say. 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 enunciate a common word?

enunciate 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 enunciate?

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