secrete

Other forms of secrete

past tense

secreted·

present participle

secreting·

third person

secretes·

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 secrete

What does secrete mean?

secrete means "generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secrete?

secrete has 2 syllables: se-crete. The stress falls on "crete". In IPA it is /sɪˈkɹit/.

What is another word for secrete?

Close synonyms include release. 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 secrete a common word?

secrete 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 secrete?

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