testify

Other forms of testify

past tense or participle

testified

present participle

testifying·

third person

testifies·

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 testify

What does testify mean?

testify means "give testimony in a court of law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in testify?

testify has 3 syllables: tes-ti-fy. The stress falls on "tes". In IPA it is /ˈtɛstəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for testify?

Close synonyms include attest, take the stand, bear witness, bear witness, prove. 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 testify a common word?

testify is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 testify?

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