extol

Other forms of extol

past tense or participle

extolled

present participle

extolling

third person

extols·

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 extol

What does extol mean?

extol means "praise, glorify, or honor".

How many syllables are in extol?

extol has 2 syllables: ex-tol. The stress falls on "tol". In IPA it is /ɪkˈstoʊl/.

What is another word for extol?

Close synonyms include laud, exalt, glorify, proclaim. 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 extol a common word?

extol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 extol?

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