undertake

Other forms of undertake

past tense or participle

undertaken

past tense or participle

undertook

present participle

undertaking·

third person

undertakes·

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 undertake

What does undertake mean?

undertake means "enter upon an activity or enterprise". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undertake?

undertake has 3 syllables: un-der-take. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌteɪk/.

What is another word for undertake?

Close synonyms include set about, attempt, tackle, take on, guarantee. 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 undertake a common word?

undertake 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 undertake?

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