quarantine

Other forms of quarantine

plural

quarantines·

past tense

quarantined·

present participle

quarantining·

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 quarantine

What does quarantine mean?

quarantine means "enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quarantine?

quarantine has 3 syllables: qua-ran-tine. The stress falls on "qua". In IPA it is /ˈkwɔɹənˌtin/.

Is quarantine a common word?

quarantine 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 quarantine?

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