actualise

Other forms of actualise

past tense

actualised·

present participle

actualising·

third person

actualises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about actualise

What does actualise mean?

actualise means "make real or concrete; give reality or substance to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in actualise?

actualise has 4 syllables: ac-tu-a-lise. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for actualise?

Close synonyms include realize, realise, actualize, substantiate, actualize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is actualise a common word?

actualise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.