infest

Other forms of infest

past tense

infested·

present participle

infesting·

third person

infests·

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 infest

What does infest mean?

infest means "invade in great numbers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infest?

infest has 2 syllables: in-fest. The stress falls on "fest". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɛst/.

What is another word for infest?

Close synonyms include overrun, invade, overrun. 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 infest a common word?

infest 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 infest?

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