germinate

Other forms of germinate

past tense

germinated·

present participle

germinating·

third person

germinates·

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 germinate

What does germinate mean?

germinate means "produce buds, branches, or germinate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in germinate?

germinate has 3 syllables: ger-mi-nate. The stress falls on "ger". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɝməˌneɪt/.

What is another word for germinate?

Close synonyms include shoot, spud, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth. 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 germinate a common word?

germinate 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 germinate?

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