isolate

Other forms of isolate

past tense

isolated·

present participle

isolating·

third person

isolates·

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 isolate

What does isolate mean?

isolate means "place or set apart". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in isolate?

isolate has 3 syllables: i-so-late. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪsəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for isolate?

Close synonyms include insulate, sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart. 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 isolate a common word?

isolate 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 isolate?

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