substantiate

Other forms of substantiate

past tense

substantiated·

present participle

substantiating·

third person

substantiates·

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 substantiate

What does substantiate mean?

substantiate means "establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in substantiate?

substantiate has 4 syllables: sub-stan-ti-ate. The stress falls on "stan". In IPA it is /səbˈstæntʃiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for substantiate?

Close synonyms include confirm, corroborate, sustain, support, affirm. 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 substantiate a common word?

substantiate 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 substantiate?

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