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evaporate

/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/verb

evaporate is spelled E-V-A-P-O-R-A-T-E: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, evaporate means “To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in evaporate?

Letters9: E-V-A-P-O-R-A-T-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is evaporate?

Evaporate appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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).

How do you pronounce evaporate?

  • US /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
  • Australia /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹæɪt/
  • /i-/

Evaporate has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-evaporate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of evaporate

  • evaporates present, singular, he/she/it
  • evaporating participle, present
  • evaporated participle, past
  • more evaporate comparative
  • most evaporate superlative

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

What does evaporate mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

  2. 2

    To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.

    to evaporate apples

  3. 3

    To give vent to; to dissipate.

  4. 4

    To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.

    Near-synonym: go up in smoke

  5. 5

    To cause to disappear or to escape or pass off without effect.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteevaporated

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

Evaporate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchévaporer, s'évaporer ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from…)
Germanverdampfen, verdunsten, evaporieren ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from…), dörren, ausdörren (to expel moisture from), verschwinden (to disappear)
Portugueseevaporar ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from…)
Spanishevaporar, evaporarse ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from…)

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 evaporate come from?

First attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by drawing off toxic matter converted into "vapor"”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

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

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