variegate

Other forms of variegate

past tense

variegated·

present participle

variegating·

third person

variegates·

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 variegate

What does variegate mean?

variegate means "change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in variegate?

variegate has 3 syllables: var-ie-gate. The stress falls on "var". In IPA it is /ˈvɛɹɪɡeɪt/.

What is another word for variegate?

Close synonyms include vary, motley. 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 variegate a common word?

variegate 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.