inoculate

Other forms of inoculate

past tense

inoculated·

present participle

inoculating·

third person

inoculates·

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 inoculate

What does inoculate mean?

inoculate means "introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inoculate?

inoculate has 4 syllables: in-o-cu-late. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈnɑkjəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for inoculate?

Close synonyms include immunize, immunise, vaccinate. 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 inoculate a common word?

inoculate 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 inoculate?

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