solicit

Other forms of solicit

past tense

solicitted·

present participle

solicitting·

third person

solicits·

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 solicit

What does solicit mean?

solicit means "make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solicit?

solicit has 3 syllables: so-lic-it. The stress falls on "lic". In IPA it is /səˈlɪsɪt/.

What is another word for solicit?

Close synonyms include beg, tap, woo, court, romance. 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 solicit a common word?

solicit 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 solicit?

1 word rhymes with solicit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.