populate

Other forms of populate

past tense

populated·

present participle

populating·

third person

populates·

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 populate

What does populate mean?

populate means "be an inhabitant of or reside in". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in populate?

populate has 3 syllables: po-pu-late. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑpjəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for populate?

Close synonyms include dwell, live, inhabit. 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 populate a common word?

populate 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 populate?

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