alkalinise

Other forms of alkalinise

past tense

alkalinised·

present participle

alkalinising·

third person

alkalinises·

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 alkalinise

What does alkalinise mean?

alkalinise means "become alkaline". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alkalinise?

alkalinise has 4 syllables: al-ka-li-nise. The stress falls on "ka".

What is another word for alkalinise?

Close synonyms include alkalinize, alkalinize. 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 alkalinise a common word?

alkalinise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.