expect

Other forms of expect

past tense

expected·

present participle

expecting·

third person

expects·

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 expect

What does expect mean?

expect means "regard something as probable or likely". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expect?

expect has 2 syllables: ex-pect. The stress falls on "pect". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛkt/.

What is another word for expect?

Close synonyms include anticipate, ask, require, look, await. 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 expect a common word?

expect is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 expect?

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