summate

Other forms of summate

past tense

summated·

present participle

summating·

third person

summates·

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 summate

What does summate mean?

summate means "determine the sum of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in summate?

summate has 2 syllables: sum-mate. The stress falls on "mate".

What is another word for summate?

Close synonyms include total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up. 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 summate a common word?

summate 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.