untangle

Other forms of untangle

past tense

untangled·

present participle

untangling·

third person

untangles·

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 untangle

What does untangle mean?

untangle means "release from entanglement of difficulty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untangle?

untangle has 3 syllables: un-tan-gle. The stress falls on "tan". In IPA it is /ənˈtæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for untangle?

Close synonyms include extricate, disentangle, disencumber, unravel, unknot. 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 untangle a common word?

untangle 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 untangle?

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