untie

Other forms of untie

past tense

untied·

present participle

untying

third person

unties·

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 untie

What does untie mean?

untie means "undo the ties of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untie?

untie has 2 syllables: un-tie. The stress falls on "tie". In IPA it is /ənˈtaɪ/.

What is another word for untie?

Close synonyms include unbrace, unlace, undo, loosen. 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 untie?

The recorded antonyms are tie.

Is untie a common word?

untie 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 untie?

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