prefer

Other forms of prefer

past tense or participle

preferred

present participle

preferring

third person

prefers·

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 prefer

What does prefer mean?

prefer means "like better; value more highly". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prefer?

prefer has 2 syllables: pre-fer. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɝ/.

What is another word for prefer?

Close synonyms include choose, opt, favor, favour. 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 prefer a common word?

prefer 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 prefer?

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