suffice

Other forms of suffice

past tense

sufficed·

present participle

sufficing·

third person

suffices·

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 suffice

What does suffice mean?

suffice means "be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity".

How many syllables are in suffice?

suffice has 2 syllables: suf-fice. The stress falls on "fice". In IPA it is /səˈfaɪs/.

What is another word for suffice?

Close synonyms include do, answer, serve. 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 suffice a common word?

suffice 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.

What rhymes with suffice?

1 word rhymes with suffice. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.