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indemnify

/ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/verb

indemnify is spelled I-N-D-E-M-N-I-F-Y: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, indemnify means “To secure against loss or damage; to insure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in indemnify?

Letters9: I-N-D-E-M-N-I-F-Y
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd 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 indemnify?

Indemnify appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd 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 indemnify?

  • /ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/

Indemnify 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-indemnify.ogg, En-au-indemnify.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of indemnify

  • indemnifies present, singular, he/she/it
  • indemnifying participle, present
  • indemnified participle, past

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

What does indemnify mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To secure against loss or damage; to insure.

    The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.

  2. 2

    To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.

  3. 3

    obsoleterareto hurt, to harm

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

Indemnify in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germansicherstellen (to save harmless; to secure against loss or…), schadlos halten, wiedergutmachen, Indemnität erteilen, entschädigen (to make restitution or compensation for)
Portugueseproteger, assegurar (to save harmless; to secure against loss or…), indenizar (to make restitution or compensation for)
Spanishasegurar (to save harmless; to secure against loss or…), indemnizar, refacer (to make restitution or compensation for)

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 indemnify come from?

From indemn (“unhurt”) + -ify (forming verbs)

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

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