insure

Other forms of insure

past tense

insured·

present participle

insuring·

third person

insures·

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 insure

What does insure mean?

insure means "be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in insure?

insure has 2 syllables: in-sure. The stress falls on "sure". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈʃʊɹ/.

What is another word for insure?

Close synonyms include see, check, see to it, ensure, control. 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 insure a common word?

insure 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 insure?

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