provoke

Other forms of provoke

past tense

provoked·

present participle

provoking·

third person

provokes·

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 provoke

What does provoke mean?

provoke means "call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in provoke?

provoke has 2 syllables: pro-voke. The stress falls on "voke". In IPA it is /pɹəˈvoʊk/.

What is another word for provoke?

Close synonyms include arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke. 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 provoke a common word?

provoke 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 provoke?

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