surpass

Other forms of surpass

past tense

surpassed·

present participle

surpassing·

third person

surpasses·

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 surpass

What does surpass mean?

surpass means "distinguish oneself". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surpass?

surpass has 2 syllables: sur-pass. The stress falls on "pass". In IPA it is /sɚˈpæs/.

What is another word for surpass?

Close synonyms include excel, stand out, outstrip, outmatch, outgo. 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 surpass a common word?

surpass 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 surpass?

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