initialise

Other forms of initialise

past tense

initialised·

present participle

initialising·

third person

initialises·

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 initialise

What does initialise mean?

initialise means "assign an initial value to a computer program". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in initialise?

initialise has 5 syllables: i-ni-ti-a-lise. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for initialise?

Close synonyms include initialize, format, initialize. 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 initialise a common word?

initialise 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.