prevail

Other forms of prevail

past tense

prevailed·

present participle

prevailing·

third person

prevails·

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 prevail

What does prevail mean?

prevail means "be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prevail?

prevail has 2 syllables: pre-vail. The stress falls on "vail". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈveɪl/.

What is another word for prevail?

Close synonyms include predominate, dominate, rule, reign, hold. 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 prevail a common word?

prevail 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 prevail?

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