legitimise

Other forms of legitimise

past tense

legitimised·

present participle

legitimising·

third person

legitimises·

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 legitimise

What does legitimise mean?

legitimise means "make legal".

How many syllables are in legitimise?

legitimise has 4 syllables and divides as le-gi-ti-mise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for legitimise?

Close synonyms include legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize. 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 legitimise a common word?

legitimise 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.