familiarize

Other forms of familiarize

past tense

familiarized·

present participle

familiarizing·

third person

familiarizes·

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 familiarize

What does familiarize mean?

familiarize means "make familiar or conversant with".

How many syllables are in familiarize?

familiarize has 4 syllables: fa-mil-ia-rize. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /fəˈmɪljɚˌaɪz/.

What is another word for familiarize?

Close synonyms include familiarise, 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 familiarize a common word?

familiarize 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 familiarize?

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