fluctuate

Other forms of fluctuate

past tense

fluctuated·

present participle

fluctuating·

third person

fluctuates·

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 fluctuate

What does fluctuate mean?

fluctuate means "cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fluctuate?

fluctuate has 3 syllables: fluc-tu-ate. The stress falls on "fluc". In IPA it is /ˈflʌktʃəˌweɪt/.

What is another word for fluctuate?

Close synonyms include vacillate, waver. 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 fluctuate a common word?

fluctuate 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 fluctuate?

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