focalise

Other forms of focalise

past tense

focalised·

present participle

focalising·

third person

focalises·

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 focalise

What does focalise mean?

focalise means "concentrate on a particular place or spot". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in focalise?

focalise has 3 syllables and divides as fo-ca-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for focalise?

Close synonyms include localize, localise, focalize, concenter, concentre. 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 focalise a common word?

focalise is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.