sibilate

Other forms of sibilate

past tense

sibilated·

present participle

sibilating·

third person

sibilates·

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 sibilate

What does sibilate mean?

sibilate means "pronounce with an initial sibilant". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sibilate?

sibilate has 3 syllables: si-bi-late. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for sibilate?

Close synonyms include hiss, sizz, siss, hiss, siss. 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 sibilate a common word?

sibilate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.