scintillate

Other forms of scintillate

past tense

scintillated·

present participle

scintillating·

third person

scintillates·

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 scintillate

What does scintillate mean?

scintillate means "give off". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scintillate?

scintillate has 3 syllables: scin-til-late. The stress falls on "scin".

What is another word for scintillate?

Close synonyms include sparkle, coruscate, twinkle, winkle, sparkle. 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 scintillate a common word?

scintillate 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.