permeate

Other forms of permeate

past tense

permeated·

present participle

permeating·

third person

permeates·

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 permeate

What does permeate mean?

permeate means "spread or diffuse through". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in permeate?

permeate has 3 syllables: per-me-ate. The stress falls on "per". In IPA it is /ˈpɝmiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for permeate?

Close synonyms include pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue. 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 permeate a common word?

permeate 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 permeate?

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