inhabit

Other forms of inhabit

past tense

inhabitted·

present participle

inhabitting·

third person

inhabits·

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 inhabit

What does inhabit mean?

inhabit means "be an inhabitant of or reside in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inhabit?

inhabit has 3 syllables: in-hab-it. The stress falls on "hab". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈhæbət/.

What is another word for inhabit?

Close synonyms include populate, dwell, live, dwell. 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 inhabit a common word?

inhabit 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 inhabit?

1 word rhymes with inhabit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.