fictionalise

Other forms of fictionalise

past tense

fictionalised·

present participle

fictionalising·

third person

fictionalises·

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 fictionalise

What does fictionalise mean?

fictionalise means "make into fiction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fictionalise?

fictionalise has 5 syllables: fic-ti-o-na-lise. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for fictionalise?

Close synonyms include fictionalize, retell, novelize, novelise, fictionalize. 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 fictionalise a common word?

fictionalise 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.