supervise

Other forms of supervise

past tense

supervised·

present participle

supervising·

third person

supervises·

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 supervise

What does supervise mean?

supervise means "watch and direct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in supervise?

supervise has 3 syllables: su-per-vise. The stress falls on "su". In IPA it is /ˈsupɚˌvaɪz/.

What is another word for supervise?

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

supervise 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 supervise?

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