reclaim

Other forms of reclaim

past tense

reclaimed·

present participle

reclaiming·

third person

reclaims·

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 reclaim

What does reclaim mean?

reclaim means "claim back". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reclaim?

reclaim has 2 syllables: re-claim. The stress falls on "claim". In IPA it is /ɹiˈkleɪm/.

What is another word for reclaim?

Close synonyms include repossess, recover, reform, regenerate, rectify. 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 reclaim a common word?

reclaim 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 reclaim?

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