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epitomise

verb

epitomise is spelled E-P-I-T-O-M-I-S-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, epitomise means “Alternative spelling of epitomize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in epitomise?

Letters9: E-P-I-T-O-M-I-S-E
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is epitomise?

Epitomise appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).

Forms of epitomise

  • epitomises present, singular, he/she/it
  • epitomising participle, present
  • epitomised participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does epitomise mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    UKAlternative spelling of epitomize.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Epitomise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Portugueseepitomizar

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.

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