economize

Other forms of economize

past tense

economized·

present participle

economizing·

third person

economizes·

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 economize

What does economize mean?

economize means "use cautiously and frugally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in economize?

economize has 4 syllables: e-co-no-mize. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ɪˈkɑnəˌmaɪz/.

What is another word for economize?

Close synonyms include conserve, husband, economise, save, economise. 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 economize a common word?

economize 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.

What rhymes with economize?

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