edit

Other forms of edit

past tense

editted·

present participle

editting·

third person

edits·

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 edit

What does edit mean?

edit means "prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in edit?

edit has 2 syllables: ed-it. The stress falls on "ed". In IPA it is /ˈɛdət/.

What is another word for edit?

Close synonyms include redact, cut, edit out, blue-pencil, delete. 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 edit a common word?

edit 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.