innate

Other forms of innate

comparative

innater·

superlative

innatest·

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 innate

What does innate mean?

innate means "not established by conditioning or learning". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in innate?

innate has 2 syllables: in-nate. The stress falls on "nate". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈneɪt/.

What is another word for innate?

Close synonyms include unconditioned, unlearned, natural, born, congenital. 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 innate a common word?

innate 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 innate?

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