felicitate
/fəˈlɪs.ɪ.teɪt/verb
felicitate is a verb meaning “To congratulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-I-C-I-T-A-T-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does felicitate mean?
verb
- 1
To congratulate.
adjective
- 1
archaicMade very happy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce felicitate?
- /fəˈlɪs.ɪ.teɪt/
Felicitate 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-felicitate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of felicitate
- felicitates present, singular, he/she/it
- felicitating participle, present
- felicitated participle, past
- more felicitate comparative
- most felicitate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is felicitate?
Felicitate appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
Where does felicitate come from?
From Latin fēlicitātus, perfect passive participle of fēlīcitō (“to felicitate”) (from fēlīx (“happy”)), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French féliciter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).