validate
/ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/verb
validate is spelled V-A-L-I-D-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is valudate: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 149 of all searches for the word. Validate is a verb meaning “To render valid”.
How many letters and syllables are in validate?
| Letters | 8: V-A-L-I-D-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, valudate, about 10 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 validate?
Validate is spelled V-A-L-I-D-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 150 of the searches for validate 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 validate?
Validate appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd 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 validate?
- /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/
- /ˈvæl.ə.deɪt/
Validate has 3 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-validate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of validate
- validates present, singular, he/she/it
- validating participle, present
- validated participle, past
- more validate comparative
- most validate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does validate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To render valid.
- 2
To check or prove the validity of; verify.
- 3
To have its validity successfully proven.
The data file cannot be imported because it doesn't validate.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteValid, validated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Validate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 validate come from?
First attested in 1648; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus (“to validate”) (perhaps through Middle French valider), the perfect passive participle of validō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from validus + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, valid + -ate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).