speak

Other forms of speak

past tense or participle

spoke

past tense or participle

spoken

present participle

speaking·

third person

speaks·

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 speak

What does speak mean?

speak means "express in speech". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in speak?

speak has 1 syllable: speak. In IPA it is /ˈspik/.

What is another word for speak?

Close synonyms include talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise. 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 speak a common word?

speak 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 speak?

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