pray

Other forms of pray

past tense

prayed·

present participle

praying·

third person

prays·

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 pray

What does pray mean?

pray means "address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pray?

pray has 1 syllable: pray. In IPA it is /ˈpɹeɪ/.

What is another word for pray?

Close synonyms include beg, implore. 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 pray a common word?

pray is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 pray?

1 word rhymes with pray. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.