auscultate
verb
auscultate is a verb meaning “To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-S-C-U-L-T-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does auscultate mean?
verb
- 1
To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of auscultate
- auscultates present, singular, he/she/it
- auscultating participle, present
- auscultated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is auscultate?
Auscultate appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Auscultate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to practice auscultation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ausculter |
| German | abhören, abhorchen, auskultieren |
| Portuguese | auscultar |
| Spanish | auscultar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does auscultate come from?
Back-formation from auscultation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).