familiarise

Other forms of familiarise

past tense

familiarised·

present participle

familiarising·

third person

familiarises·

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 familiarise

What does familiarise mean?

familiarise means "make familiar or conversant with".

How many syllables are in familiarise?

familiarise has 5 syllables: fa-mi-li-a-rise. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for familiarise?

Close synonyms include familiarize, acquaint. 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 familiarise a common word?

familiarise 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.