ligate

Questions about ligate

What does ligate mean?

ligate means "join letters in a ligature when writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ligate?

ligate has 2 syllables and divides as li-gate 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.

Is ligate a common word?

ligate 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.