reply

1. 1.

   react verbally

   “She didn't want to answer”

   “answer the question”

   “We answered that we would accept the invitation”

   Synonymsanswerrespond

   Broaderstate

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Other forms of reply

plural

replies·

past tense or participle

replied

present participle

replying·

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 reply

What does reply mean?

reply means "a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reply?

reply has 2 syllables: re-ply. The stress falls on "ply". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈplaɪ/.

What is another word for reply?

Close synonyms include answer, response, response, answer, respond. 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 reply a common word?

reply is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 reply?

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