redeem

Other forms of redeem

past tense

redeemed·

present participle

redeeming·

third person

redeems·

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 redeem

What does redeem mean?

redeem means "save from sins". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redeem?

redeem has 2 syllables: re-deem. The stress falls on "deem". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdim/.

What is another word for redeem?

Close synonyms include deliver, save, ransom, pay off. 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 redeem a common word?

redeem 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 redeem?

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