wield

Other forms of wield

past tense

wielded·

present participle

wielding·

third person

wields·

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 wield

What does wield mean?

wield means "have and exercise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wield?

wield has 1 syllable: wield. In IPA it is /ˈwild/.

What is another word for wield?

Close synonyms include exert, maintain, handle, manage. 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 wield a common word?

wield 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 wield?

1 word rhymes with wield. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.