inborn

Other forms of inborn

comparative

inborner·

superlative

inbornest·

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 inborn

What does inborn mean?

inborn means "present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inborn?

inborn has 2 syllables: in-born. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnˌbɔɹn/.

What is another word for inborn?

Close synonyms include congenital, innate, connatural, inbred. 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 inborn a common word?

inborn 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 inborn?

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