interpolate

Other forms of interpolate

past tense

interpolated·

present participle

interpolating·

third person

interpolates·

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 interpolate

What does interpolate mean?

interpolate means "estimate the value of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in interpolate?

interpolate has 4 syllables: in-ter-po-late. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈtɝpəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for interpolate?

Close synonyms include extrapolate, alter, falsify. 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 interpolate a common word?

interpolate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 interpolate?

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