reinstate

Other forms of reinstate

past tense

reinstated·

present participle

reinstating·

third person

reinstates·

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 reinstate

What does reinstate mean?

reinstate means "restore to the previous state or rank". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reinstate?

reinstate has 3 syllables: re-in-state. The stress falls on "state". In IPA it is /ˌɹiɪnˈsteɪt/.

What is another word for reinstate?

Close synonyms include restore, reestablish. 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 reinstate a common word?

reinstate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 reinstate?

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