officiate

Other forms of officiate

past tense

officiated·

present participle

officiating·

third person

officiates·

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 officiate

What does officiate mean?

officiate means "act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in officiate?

officiate has 4 syllables: of-fic-i-ate. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /əˈfɪʃiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for officiate?

Close synonyms include function. 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 officiate a common word?

officiate 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.

What rhymes with officiate?

95 words rhyme with officiate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.