omit
/oʊˈmɪt/verb
omit is spelled O-M-I-T: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, omit means “To leave out or exclude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in omit?
| Letters | 4: O-M-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is omit?
Omit appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 omit?
- UK /əʊˈmɪt/
- UK /əˈmɪt/
- US /oʊˈmɪt/
Omit has 2 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-omit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with omit?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as omit from its last stressed vowel (/ɪt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mito.
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 omit
- omits present, singular, he/she/it
- omitting participle, present
- omitted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does omit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To leave out or exclude.
- 2
To fail to perform.
- 3
To delete or remove; to strike.
- 4
rareTo neglect or take no notice of.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Omit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to leave out or exclude:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | omettre |
| German | weglassen, auslassen |
| Portuguese | omitir |
| Spanish | omitir, dejar de lado, dejarse en el tintero, hacer caso omiso de, preterir |
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 omit come from?
At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).