infiltrate

Other forms of infiltrate

past tense

infiltrated·

present participle

infiltrating·

third person

infiltrates·

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 infiltrate

What does infiltrate mean?

infiltrate means "cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infiltrate?

infiltrate has 3 syllables: in-fil-trate. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnfɪlˌtɹeɪt/.

What is another word for infiltrate?

Close synonyms include penetrate, pass through. 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 infiltrate a common word?

infiltrate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 infiltrate?

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