portend

Other forms of portend

past tense

portended·

present participle

portending·

third person

portends·

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 portend

What does portend mean?

portend means "indicate, as with a sign or an omen".

How many syllables are in portend?

portend has 2 syllables: por-tend. The stress falls on "tend". In IPA it is /pɔɹˈtɛnd/.

What is another word for portend?

Close synonyms include bode, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage. 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 portend a common word?

portend 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 portend?

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