perambulate

Questions about perambulate

What does perambulate mean?

perambulate means "make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perambulate?

perambulate has 4 syllables and divides as pe-ram-bu-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for perambulate?

Close synonyms include walk about, walk around. 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 perambulate a common word?

perambulate 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.