apprize

Other forms of apprize

past tense

apprized·

present participle

apprizing·

third person

apprizes·

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 apprize

What does apprize mean?

apprize means "inform (somebody) of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apprize?

apprize has 2 syllables: ap-prize. The stress falls on "prize".

What is another word for apprize?

Close synonyms include advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise. 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 apprize a common word?

apprize 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.