superintend

Questions about superintend

What does superintend mean?

superintend means "watch and direct".

How many syllables are in superintend?

superintend has 4 syllables: su-pe-rin-tend. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for superintend?

Close synonyms include oversee, supervise, manage. 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 superintend a common word?

superintend is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.