iterate

Other forms of iterate

past tense

iterated·

present participle

iterating·

third person

iterates·

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 iterate

What does iterate mean?

iterate means "to say, state, or perform again". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iterate?

iterate has 3 syllables: i-te-rate. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for iterate?

Close synonyms include repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, restate, retell. 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 iterate a common word?

iterate 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.