exhibit
ex·hib·it/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/verb, noun
exhibit is spelled E-X-H-I-B-I-T, 3 syllables: ex·hib·it. The wrong spelling people search most is exibit: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Exhibit is a verb meaning “To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest”.
How many letters and syllables are in exhibit?
| Letters | 7: E-X-H-I-B-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ex·hib·it |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exibit, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell exhibit?
Exhibit is spelled E-X-H-I-B-I-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for exhibit in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is exhibit?
Exhibit appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 exhibit?
- UK /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/
- UK /ɛɡ-/
- US /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/
Exhibit has 3 syllables, split ex·hib·it in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-exhibit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with exhibit?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as exhibit from its last stressed vowel (/ɪbɪt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of exhibit
- exhibits present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- exhibiting participle, present
- exhibited participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exhibit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.
- 2
To demonstrate.
The players exhibited great skill.
- 3
To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
I now exhibit this bloody hammer.
- 4
To put on a public display.
Will you be exhibiting this year?
- 5
To administer as a remedy.
to exhibit calomel
noun
- 1
An instance of exhibiting.
- 2
That which is exhibited.
- 3
A public showing; an exhibition.
The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
- 4
An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate exhibit?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of exhibit: exh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exhibit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | exposer , exposition , pièce à conviction |
| German | zeigen, zur Schau stellen, ausstellen, vorzeigen , an den Tag legen , Ausstellung |
| Portuguese | exibir , demonstrar , exibição, exposição |
| Spanish | exhibir , exhibición , prueba documental, evidencia instrumental, muestra , exponer |
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 exhibit come from?
From Latin exhibitus, perfect passive participle of exhibeō (“to hold forth, present, show, display”), from ex (“out of, from”) + habeō (“to have, hold”); see habit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).