Pronunciation
editenPR: -āt, IPA(key): /-eɪt/, eIt
(Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA(key): [-eːt]
Rhymes
editOne syllable
editTwo syllables
edit- abate
- ablate
- aerate (UK pronunciation)
- await
- bear bait
- belate
- berate
- conflate
- create
- debate
- deflate
- delate
- derate
- donate (outside US and Canada)
- elate
- equate
- estate
- G8
- inflate
- ingrate
- innate
- irate
- Kuwait
- love-hate
- mandate
- negate
- ornate
- predate
- pregnate
- rebate (one pronunciation, esp. US)
- reflate
- relate
- restate
- sedate
- uncrate
Three syllables
edit- eighty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- fifty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- forty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- ninety-eight (at the end of a clause)
- overate
- overrate
- overstate
- overweight (adjective)
- piece of eight
- recreate
- reinflate
- reinstate
- sixty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- thirty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- twenty-eight (at the end of a clause)
- understate
- underweight (adjective)
- up-to-date
Four syllables
edit- exacerbate
- hyperinflate
- interrelate
- invertebrate (one pronunciation)
- overinflate
- seventy-eight (at the end of a clause)
- underinflate