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: le-gi-ti-mise. The stress falls on "gi".

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.