impersonate

Other forms of impersonate

past tense

impersonated·

present participle

impersonating·

third person

impersonates·

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 impersonate

What does impersonate mean?

impersonate means "assume or act the character of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impersonate?

impersonate has 4 syllables: im-per-so-nate. The stress falls on "per". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɝsəˌneɪt/.

What is another word for impersonate?

Close synonyms include portray, pose, personate. 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 impersonate a common word?

impersonate 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 impersonate?

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