omit

Other forms of omit

past tense or participle

omitted

present participle

omitting

third person

omits·

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 omit

What does omit mean?

omit means "prevent from being included or considered or accepted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in omit?

omit has 2 syllables: o-mit. The stress falls on "mit". In IPA it is /oʊˈmɪt/.

What is another word for omit?

Close synonyms include exclude, except, leave out, leave off, take out. 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 omit a common word?

omit 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 omit?

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