oscillate

Other forms of oscillate

past tense

oscillated·

present participle

oscillating·

third person

oscillates·

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 oscillate

What does oscillate mean?

oscillate means "be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oscillate?

oscillate has 3 syllables: o-scil-late. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɑsəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for oscillate?

Close synonyms include hover, vibrate, vacillate, vibrate. 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 oscillate a common word?

oscillate 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.

What rhymes with oscillate?

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