inmate

Other forms of inmate

plural

inmates·

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 inmate

What does inmate mean?

inmate means "one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inmate?

inmate has 2 syllables: in-mate. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnˌmeɪt/.

What is another word for inmate?

Close synonyms include inpatient, convict, con, yard bird, yardbird. 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 inmate a common word?

inmate 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 inmate?

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