invoke

Other forms of invoke

past tense

invoked·

present participle

invoking·

third person

invokes·

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 invoke

What does invoke mean?

invoke means "summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invoke?

invoke has 2 syllables: in-voke. The stress falls on "voke". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvoʊk/.

What is another word for invoke?

Close synonyms include raise, conjure, conjure up, evoke, stir. 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 invoke a common word?

invoke 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 invoke?

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