intrust

Other forms of intrust

past tense

intrusted·

present participle

intrusting·

third person

intrusts·

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 intrust

What does intrust mean?

intrust means "confer a trust upon".

How many syllables are in intrust?

intrust has 2 syllables and divides as in-trust under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for intrust?

Close synonyms include entrust, trust, confide, commit. 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 intrust a common word?

intrust 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.