instruct

Other forms of instruct

past tense

instructed·

present participle

instructing·

third person

instructs·

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 instruct

What does instruct mean?

instruct means "impart skills or knowledge to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instruct?

instruct has 2 syllables: in-struct. The stress falls on "struct". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈstɹʌkt/.

What is another word for instruct?

Close synonyms include teach, learn, apprise, apprize. 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 instruct a common word?

instruct 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 instruct?

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