fabricate

Other forms of fabricate

past tense

fabricated·

present participle

fabricating·

third person

fabricates·

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 fabricate

What does fabricate mean?

fabricate means "put together out of artificial or natural components or parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fabricate?

fabricate has 3 syllables: fab-ri-cate. The stress falls on "fab". In IPA it is /ˈfæbɹəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for fabricate?

Close synonyms include manufacture, construct, manufacture, cook up, make up. 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 fabricate a common word?

fabricate 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 fabricate?

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