uprise

Other forms of uprise

past tense or participle

uprisen

past tense or participle

uprose

present participle

uprising·

third person

uprises·

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 uprise

What does uprise mean?

uprise means "come into existence; take on form or shape". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uprise?

uprise has 2 syllables: up-rise. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpɹaɪz/.

What is another word for uprise?

Close synonyms include originate, arise, rise, develop, spring up. 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 uprise a common word?

uprise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.