Use of "elide" --common or esoteric? [closed]

Is the word "elide" a word commonly used by English speakers, or is it a more esoteric word used in law or crossword puzzles?

I have never heard ‘elide’ used in regular conversation in the more general sense of “join together; merge”.

Within the field of linguistics (even in non-academic contexts), however, it is a perfectly common word describing the omission of a sound (usually a vowel) or syllable. For example, in “I’ll” or “he’s”, the syllable /wi/ and the vowel /i/, respectively, have been elided. I am not familiar with a different term commonly used for this type of elision—‘omit’ is not commonly used in this sense, except perhaps by people who simply do not know the word ‘elide’ at all.

It's a technical term in linguistics, usually in phonetics and phonology; I've also seen it used occasionally in syntax, speaking of such phenomena as Conversational Deletion, Conjunction Reduction, To Be-Deletion, or That-Deletion, etc.

The noun form elision is more common, but elide is the correct verb form, and it gets used plenty, as you can see on the Wikipedia page.