colourize

Other forms of colourize

past tense

colourized·

present participle

colourizing·

third person

colourizes·

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 colourize

What does colourize mean?

colourize means "add color to".

How many syllables are in colourize?

colourize has 3 syllables and divides as co-lou-rize under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for colourize?

Close synonyms include color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colour. 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 colourize a common word?

colourize 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.