familiarising

1. 1.

   serving to make familiar

   Synonymsfamiliarizing

   Similarorienting

Questions about familiarising

What does familiarising mean?

familiarising means "serving to make familiar".

How many syllables are in familiarising?

familiarising has 6 syllables: fa-mi-li-a-ri-sing. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for familiarising?

Close synonyms include familiarizing. 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 familiarising a common word?

familiarising 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.