equate

Other forms of equate

past tense

equated·

present participle

equating·

third person

equates·

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 equate

What does equate mean?

equate means "consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equate?

equate has 2 syllables: eq-uate. The stress falls on "uate". In IPA it is /ɪˈkweɪt/.

What is another word for equate?

Close synonyms include compare, liken, correspond, equal, match. 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 equate a common word?

equate 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 equate?

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