channelize

Other forms of channelize

past tense

channelized·

present participle

channelizing·

third person

channelizes·

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 channelize

What does channelize mean?

channelize means "direct the course; determine the direction of travelling". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in channelize?

channelize has 3 syllables: chan-ne-lize. The stress falls on "chan".

What is another word for channelize?

Close synonyms include steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct. 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 channelize a common word?

channelize 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.