interpose

Other forms of interpose

past tense

interposed·

present participle

interposing·

third person

interposes·

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 interpose

What does interpose mean?

interpose means "be or come between". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in interpose?

interpose has 3 syllables: in-ter-pose. The stress falls on "pose". In IPA it is /ˌɪntɚˈpoʊz/.

What is another word for interpose?

Close synonyms include interject, come in, put in, throw in, inject. 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 interpose a common word?

interpose 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 interpose?

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