fancify

Other forms of fancify

past tense

fancified·

present participle

fancifying·

third person

fancifies·

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 fancify

What does fancify mean?

fancify means "make more beautiful".

How many syllables are in fancify?

fancify has 3 syllables: fan-ci-fy. The stress falls on "fan".

What is another word for fancify?

Close synonyms include beautify, embellish, prettify. 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 fancify a common word?

fancify 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.