underwrite

Other forms of underwrite

past tense or participle

underwritten

past tense or participle

underwrote

present participle

underwriting·

third person

underwrites·

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 underwrite

What does underwrite mean?

underwrite means "guarantee financial support of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underwrite?

underwrite has 3 syllables: un-der-write. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌɹaɪt/.

What is another word for underwrite?

Close synonyms include subvention, subvent, cover, insure. 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 underwrite a common word?

underwrite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 underwrite?

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