gyrate

Other forms of gyrate

past tense

gyrated·

present participle

gyrating·

third person

gyrates·

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 gyrate

What does gyrate mean?

gyrate means "to wind or move in a spiral course". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gyrate?

gyrate has 2 syllables: gy-rate. The stress falls on "gy". In IPA it is /ˈdʒaɪˌɹeɪt/.

What is another word for gyrate?

Close synonyms include spiral, coil, spin, spin around, whirl. 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 gyrate a common word?

gyrate 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 gyrate?

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