verify

Other forms of verify

past tense or participle

verified

present participle

verifying·

third person

verifies·

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 verify

What does verify mean?

verify means "confirm the truth of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in verify?

verify has 3 syllables: ver-i-fy. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˈvɛɹəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for verify?

Close synonyms include control, affirm, assert, avow, aver. 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 verify a common word?

verify is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 verify?

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