write

Other forms of write

past tense or participle

written

past tense or participle

wrote

present participle

writing·

third person

writes·

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 write

What does write mean?

write means "produce a literary work". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in write?

write has 1 syllable: write. In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪt/.

What is another word for write?

Close synonyms include compose, pen, indite, drop a line, compose. 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 write a common word?

write is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 write?

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