impel

Other forms of impel

past tense or participle

impelled

present participle

impelling

third person

impels·

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 impel

What does impel mean?

impel means "urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impel?

impel has 2 syllables: im-pel. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɛl/.

What is another word for impel?

Close synonyms include force, propel. 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 impel a common word?

impel 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 impel?

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