rescind

Other forms of rescind

past tense

rescinded·

present participle

rescinding·

third person

rescinds·

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 rescind

What does rescind mean?

rescind means "cancel officially".

How many syllables are in rescind?

rescind has 2 syllables: re-scind. The stress falls on "scind". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsɪnd/.

What is another word for rescind?

Close synonyms include revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse. 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 rescind a common word?

rescind 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 rescind?

1 word rhymes with rescind. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.