retrace

Other forms of retrace

past tense

retraced·

present participle

retracing·

third person

retraces·

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 retrace

What does retrace mean?

retrace means "to go back over again". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retrace?

retrace has 2 syllables: re-trace. The stress falls on "trace". In IPA it is /ɹiˈtɹeɪs/.

What is another word for retrace?

Close synonyms include trace, reconstruct, construct. 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 retrace a common word?

retrace 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 retrace?

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