secern

Other forms of secern

past tense

secerned·

present participle

secerning·

third person

secerns·

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 secern

What does secern mean?

secern means "mark as different".

How many syllables are in secern?

secern has 2 syllables: se-cern. The stress falls on "cern".

What is another word for secern?

Close synonyms include distinguish, separate, differentiate, secernate, severalize. 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 secern a common word?

secern 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.