transmigrate

Other forms of transmigrate

past tense

transmigrated·

present participle

transmigrating·

third person

transmigrates·

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 transmigrate

What does transmigrate mean?

transmigrate means "be born anew in another body after death". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transmigrate?

transmigrate has 3 syllables and divides as tran-smi-grate 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.

What is another word for transmigrate?

Close synonyms include reincarnate, migrate. 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 transmigrate a common word?

transmigrate 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.