unscramble

Other forms of unscramble

past tense

unscrambled·

present participle

unscrambling·

third person

unscrambles·

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 unscramble

What does unscramble mean?

unscramble means "make intelligible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unscramble?

unscramble has 3 syllables: un-scram-ble. The stress falls on "scram". In IPA it is /ənˈskɹæmbəl/.

What is another word for unscramble?

Close synonyms include unravel, unknot, untangle, unpick. 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 unscramble?

The recorded antonyms are scramble.

Is unscramble a common word?

unscramble 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 unscramble?

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