typify

Other forms of typify

past tense or participle

typified

present participle

typifying·

third person

typifies·

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 typify

What does typify mean?

typify means "embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in typify?

typify has 3 syllables: typ-i-fy. The stress falls on "typ". In IPA it is /ˈtɪpəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for typify?

Close synonyms include epitomize, epitomise, symbolize, symbolise, stand for. 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 typify a common word?

typify 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 typify?

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