serrate

Other forms of serrate

past tense

serrated·

present participle

serrating·

third person

serrates·

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 serrate

What does serrate mean?

serrate means "make saw-toothed or jag the edge of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in serrate?

serrate has 2 syllables: ser-rate. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /ˈsɛˌɹeɪt/.

What is another word for serrate?

Close synonyms include serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched. 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 serrate a common word?

serrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 serrate?

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