legitimise
verb
legitimise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of legitimize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-G-I-T-I-M-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does legitimise mean?
verb
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of legitimize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of legitimise
- legitimises present, singular, he/she/it
- legitimising participle, present
- legitimised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is legitimise?
Legitimise appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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).