inscribe

Other forms of inscribe

past tense

inscribed·

present participle

inscribing·

third person

inscribes·

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 inscribe

What does inscribe mean?

inscribe means "carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inscribe?

inscribe has 2 syllables: in-scribe. The stress falls on "scribe". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈskɹaɪb/.

What is another word for inscribe?

Close synonyms include scratch, engrave, grave, enroll, enter. 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 inscribe a common word?

inscribe 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 inscribe?

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