waken

Other forms of waken

past tense

wakenned·

present participle

wakenning·

third person

wakens·

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 waken

What does waken mean?

waken means "cause to become awake or conscious". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waken?

waken has 2 syllables: wa-ken. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪkən/.

What is another word for waken?

Close synonyms include awaken, wake, rouse, wake up, arouse. 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 waken a common word?

waken 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 waken?

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