pate

Other forms of pate

plural

pates·

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 pate

What does pate mean?

pate means "liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pate?

pate has 1 syllable: pate. In IPA it is /ˈpeɪt/.

What is another word for pate?

Close synonyms include poll, crown. 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 pate a common word?

pate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 pate?

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