certify

Other forms of certify

past tense or participle

certified

present participle

certifying·

third person

certifies·

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 certify

What does certify mean?

certify means "provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in certify?

certify has 3 syllables: cer-ti-fy. The stress falls on "cer". In IPA it is /ˈsɝtəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for certify?

Close synonyms include attest, manifest, demonstrate, evidence, license. 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.

What is the opposite of certify?

The recorded antonyms are decertify.

Is certify a common word?

certify 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 certify?

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