palisade

Other forms of palisade

plural

palisades·

past tense

palisaded·

present participle

palisading·

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 palisade

What does palisade mean?

palisade means "fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palisade?

palisade has 3 syllables: pal-i-sade. The stress falls on "sade". In IPA it is /ˌpælɪˈseɪd/.

What is another word for palisade?

Close synonyms include wall, fence, fence in, surround. 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 palisade a common word?

palisade 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 palisade?

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