reinforce

Other forms of reinforce

past tense

reinforced·

present participle

reinforcing·

third person

reinforces·

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 reinforce

What does reinforce mean?

reinforce means "make stronger". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reinforce?

reinforce has 3 syllables: re-in-force. The stress falls on "force". In IPA it is /ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹs/.

What is another word for reinforce?

Close synonyms include reenforce, reward. 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 reinforce a common word?

reinforce 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 reinforce?

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