incur

Other forms of incur

past tense or participle

incurred

present participle

incurring

third person

incurs·

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 incur

What does incur mean?

incur means "make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incur?

incur has 2 syllables: in-cur. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈkɝ/.

What is another word for incur?

Close synonyms include receive, get, find, obtain. 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 incur a common word?

incur 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 incur?

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