hypothecate

Other forms of hypothecate

past tense

hypothecated·

present participle

hypothecating·

third person

hypothecates·

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 hypothecate

What does hypothecate mean?

hypothecate means "pledge without delivery or title of possession". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hypothecate?

hypothecate has 4 syllables: hy-po-the-cate. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for hypothecate?

Close synonyms include speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize. 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 hypothecate a common word?

hypothecate 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.