apologize

Other forms of apologize

past tense

apologized·

present participle

apologizing·

third person

apologizes·

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 apologize

What does apologize mean?

apologize means "acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apologize?

apologize has 4 syllables: a-po-lo-gize. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /əˈpɑləˌdʒaɪz/.

What is another word for apologize?

Close synonyms include apologise, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise. 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 apologize a common word?

apologize is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with apologize?

3 words rhyme with apologize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.