identify

Other forms of identify

past tense or participle

identified

present participle

identifying·

third person

identifies·

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 identify

What does identify mean?

identify means "recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in identify?

identify has 4 syllables: i-den-ti-fy. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for identify?

Close synonyms include place, name, discover, key, key out. 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 identify a common word?

identify is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 identify?

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