industrialise

Other forms of industrialise

past tense

industrialised·

present participle

industrialising·

third person

industrialises·

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 industrialise

What does industrialise mean?

industrialise means "organize (the production of something) into an industry". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in industrialise?

industrialise has 5 syllables: in-du-stri-a-lise. The stress falls on "stri".

What is another word for industrialise?

Close synonyms include industrialize, industrialize. 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 industrialise a common word?

industrialise 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.