suggest

Other forms of suggest

past tense

suggested·

present participle

suggesting·

third person

suggests·

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 suggest

What does suggest mean?

suggest means "make a proposal, declare a plan for something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suggest?

suggest has 2 syllables: sug-gest. The stress falls on "gest". In IPA it is /səˈdʒɛst/.

What is another word for suggest?

Close synonyms include propose, advise, hint, intimate, evoke. 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 suggest a common word?

suggest 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 suggest?

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