renege

Other forms of renege

plural

reneges·

past tense

reneged·

present participle

reneging·

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 renege

What does renege mean?

renege means "the mistake of not following suit when able to do so". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in renege?

renege has 2 syllables: re-nege. The stress falls on "nege". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈnɪɡ/.

What is another word for renege?

Close synonyms include revoke, renege on, renegue on, go back on. 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 renege a common word?

renege 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.