exfoliate

Other forms of exfoliate

past tense

exfoliated·

present participle

exfoliating·

third person

exfoliates·

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 exfoliate

What does exfoliate mean?

exfoliate means "spread by opening the leaves of". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exfoliate?

exfoliate has 4 syllables: ex-fo-li-ate. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ɛkˈsfoʊlieɪt/.

Is exfoliate a common word?

exfoliate 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.