calcify

Other forms of calcify

past tense or participle

calcified

present participle

calcifying·

third person

calcifies·

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 calcify

What does calcify mean?

calcify means "become impregnated with calcium salts". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calcify?

calcify has 3 syllables: cal-ci-fy. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkælsəˌfaɪ/.

What is the opposite of calcify?

The recorded antonyms are decalcify.

Is calcify a common word?

calcify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 calcify?

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