understand

Other forms of understand

past tense or participle

understood

present participle

understanding·

third person

understands·

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 understand

What does understand mean?

understand means "know and comprehend the nature or meaning of". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in understand?

understand has 3 syllables: un-der-stand. The stress falls on "stand". In IPA it is /ˌʌndɚˈstænd/.

What is another word for understand?

Close synonyms include realize, realise, see, read, interpret. 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 understand a common word?

understand is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 understand?

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