excite

Other forms of excite

past tense

excited·

present participle

exciting·

third person

excites·

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 excite

What does excite mean?

excite means "arouse or elicit a feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excite?

excite has 2 syllables: ex-cite. The stress falls on "cite". In IPA it is /ɪkˈsaɪt/.

What is another word for excite?

Close synonyms include stimulate, stimulate, stir, agitate, rouse. 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 excite a common word?

excite 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.

What rhymes with excite?

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