impend

Questions about impend

What does impend mean?

impend means "be imminent or about to happen".

How many syllables are in impend?

impend has 2 syllables: im-pend. The stress falls on "pend". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɛnd/.

Is impend a common word?

impend 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 impend?

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

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for impend come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.