replicate

Other forms of replicate

past tense

replicated·

present participle

replicating·

third person

replicates·

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 replicate

What does replicate mean?

replicate means "bend or turn backward". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in replicate?

replicate has 3 syllables: rep-li-cate. The stress falls on "rep". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for replicate?

Close synonyms include retroflex, copy, duplicate, reduplicate, double. 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 replicate a common word?

replicate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 replicate?

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