renovate

Other forms of renovate

past tense

renovated·

present participle

renovating·

third person

renovates·

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 renovate

What does renovate mean?

renovate means "restore to a previous or better condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in renovate?

renovate has 3 syllables: ren-o-vate. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛnəˌveɪt/.

What is another word for renovate?

Close synonyms include restitute, refurbish, freshen up, animate, recreate. 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 renovate a common word?

renovate 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 renovate?

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