supervene

What does supervene mean?

supervene means "take place as an additional or unexpected development".

How many syllables are in supervene?

supervene has 3 syllables and divides as su-per-vene under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is supervene a common word?

supervene 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for supervene come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.