crystallise

Other forms of crystallise

past tense

crystallised·

present participle

crystallising·

third person

crystallises·

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 crystallise

What does crystallise mean?

crystallise means "make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crystallise?

crystallise has 3 syllables: cry-stal-lise. The stress falls on "cry".

What is another word for crystallise?

Close synonyms include clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystalize. 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 crystallise a common word?

crystallise 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.