relegate

Other forms of relegate

past tense

relegated·

present participle

relegating·

third person

relegates·

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 relegate

What does relegate mean?

relegate means "refer to another person for decision or judgment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in relegate?

relegate has 3 syllables: rel-e-gate. The stress falls on "rel". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛləˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for relegate?

Close synonyms include pass on, submit, demote, bump, break. 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 relegate a common word?

relegate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 relegate?

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