send

Other forms of send

past tense or participle

sent

present participle

sending·

third person

sends·

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 send

What does send mean?

send means "cause to go somewhere". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in send?

send has 1 syllable: send. In IPA it is /ˈsɛnd/.

What is another word for send?

Close synonyms include direct, send out, mail, post, transport. 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 send a common word?

send is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 send?

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