prescribe

Other forms of prescribe

past tense

prescribed·

present participle

prescribing·

third person

prescribes·

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 prescribe

What does prescribe mean?

prescribe means "issue commands or orders for". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prescribe?

prescribe has 2 syllables: pre-scribe. The stress falls on "scribe". In IPA it is /pɹəˈskɹaɪb/.

What is another word for prescribe?

Close synonyms include order, dictate. 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 prescribe a common word?

prescribe is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 prescribe?

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