remain

Other forms of remain

past tense

remained·

present participle

remaining·

third person

remains·

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 remain

What does remain mean?

remain means "stay the same; remain in a certain state". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remain?

remain has 2 syllables: re-main. The stress falls on "main". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈmeɪn/.

What is another word for remain?

Close synonyms include stay, rest, stay, stay on, continue. 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 remain a common word?

remain is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 remain?

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