rotate

Other forms of rotate

past tense

rotated·

present participle

rotating·

third person

rotates·

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 rotate

What does rotate mean?

rotate means "turn on or around an axis or a center". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rotate?

rotate has 2 syllables: ro-tate. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊˌteɪt/.

What is another word for rotate?

Close synonyms include revolve, go around, circumvolve, turn out, splay. 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 rotate a common word?

rotate 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 rotate?

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