titillate

Questions about titillate

What does titillate mean?

titillate means "touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in titillate?

titillate has 3 syllables: tit-il-late. The stress falls on "tit". In IPA it is /ˈtɪtəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for titillate?

Close synonyms include tickle, vellicate. 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 titillate a common word?

titillate 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.

What rhymes with titillate?

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