secernate

Other forms of secernate

past tense

secernated·

present participle

secernating·

third person

secernates·

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 secernate

What does secernate mean?

secernate means "mark as different".

How many syllables are in secernate?

secernate has 3 syllables and divides as se-cer-nate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for secernate?

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

secernate 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.