facilitate
/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/verb
facilitate is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is faciliate: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Facilitate is a verb meaning “To make easy or easier”.
How many letters and syllables are in facilitate?
| Letters | 10: F-A-C-I-L-I-T-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, faciliate, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell facilitate?
Facilitate is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-A-T-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for facilitate 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 facilitate?
Facilitate appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 facilitate?
- /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/
- /fəˈsɪləteɪt/
Facilitate 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-facilitate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of facilitate
- facilitates present, singular, he/she/it
- facilitating participle, present
- facilitated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does facilitate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To make easy or easier.
- 2
To help bring about.
- 3
To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Facilitate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to make easy or easier:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | faciliter |
| German | erleichtern, fördern |
| Portuguese | facilitar |
| Spanish | facilitar |
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 facilitate come from?
Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).