occupy

Other forms of occupy

past tense or participle

occupied

present participle

occupying·

third person

occupies·

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 occupy

What does occupy mean?

occupy means "keep busy with". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occupy?

occupy has 3 syllables: oc-cu-py. The stress falls on "oc". In IPA it is /ˈɑkjəˌpaɪ/.

What is another word for occupy?

Close synonyms include busy, reside, lodge in, fill, concern. 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 occupy a common word?

occupy 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 occupy?

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