undo

Other forms of undo

past tense or participle

undid

past tense or participle

undone

present participle

undoing·

third person

undoes·

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 undo

What does undo mean?

undo means "cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undo?

undo has 2 syllables: un-do. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ənˈdu/.

What is another word for undo?

Close synonyms include unmake, untie, loosen, unwrap. 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 undo a common word?

undo is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 undo?

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