irrigate

Other forms of irrigate

past tense

irrigated·

present participle

irrigating·

third person

irrigates·

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 irrigate

What does irrigate mean?

irrigate means "supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in irrigate?

irrigate has 3 syllables: ir-ri-gate. The stress falls on "ir". In IPA it is /ˈɪɹəˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for irrigate?

Close synonyms include water. 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 irrigate a common word?

irrigate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 irrigate?

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