palate

Other forms of palate

plural

palates·

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 palate

What does palate mean?

palate means "the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities".

How many syllables are in palate?

palate has 2 syllables: pal-ate. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpælət/.

What is another word for palate?

Close synonyms include roof of the mouth. 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 palate a common word?

palate 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 palate?

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