intone

Other forms of intone

past tense

intoned·

present participle

intoning·

third person

intones·

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 intone

What does intone mean?

intone means "utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intone?

intone has 2 syllables: in-tone. The stress falls on "tone". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈtoʊn/.

What is another word for intone?

Close synonyms include tone, chant, chant, intonate, cantillate. 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 intone a common word?

intone 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 intone?

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