equip

Other forms of equip

past tense or participle

equipped

present participle

equipping

third person

equips·

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 equip

What does equip mean?

equip means "provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equip?

equip has 2 syllables: eq-uip. The stress falls on "uip". In IPA it is /ɪˈkwɪp/.

What is another word for equip?

Close synonyms include fit, fit out, outfit. 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 equip a common word?

equip 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 equip?

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