conversate
/ˈkɑːn.vɚˌseɪt/verbnonstandard
conversate is a verb meaning “To converse, to have conversation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does conversate mean?
verb
- 1
nonstandardTo converse, to have conversation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce conversate?
- US /ˈkɑːn.vɚˌseɪt/
- UK /ˈkɒn.vəˌseɪt/
Conversate has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-conversate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of conversate
- conversates present, singular, he/she/it
- conversating participle, present
- conversated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is conversate?
Conversate appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).
Words people confuse with conversate
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does conversate come from?
Back-formation from conversation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).