unravel

Other forms of unravel

past tense or participle

unravelled

present participle

unravelling

third person

unravels·

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 unravel

What does unravel mean?

unravel means "become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unravel?

unravel has 3 syllables: un-rav-el. The stress falls on "rav". In IPA it is /ənˈɹævəl/.

What is another word for unravel?

Close synonyms include unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick, ravel. 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.

What is the opposite of unravel?

The recorded antonyms are ravel, ravel.

Is unravel a common word?

unravel 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 unravel?

1 word rhymes with unravel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.