impale

Other forms of impale

past tense

impaled·

present participle

impaling·

third person

impales·

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 impale

What does impale mean?

impale means "pierce with a sharp stake or point". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impale?

impale has 2 syllables: i-mpale. The stress falls on "mpale". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpeɪl/.

What is another word for impale?

Close synonyms include transfix, empale, spike, stake. 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 impale a common word?

impale 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 impale?

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