purloin

Other forms of purloin

past tense

purloined·

present participle

purloining·

third person

purloins·

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 purloin

What does purloin mean?

purloin means "make off with belongings of others".

How many syllables are in purloin?

purloin has 2 syllables: pur-loin. The stress falls on "loin". In IPA it is /pɚˈlɔɪn/.

What is another word for purloin?

Close synonyms include pilfer, cabbage, pinch, abstract, snarf. 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 purloin a common word?

purloin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 purloin?

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