institutionalise

Questions about institutionalise

What does institutionalise mean?

institutionalise means "cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution".

How many syllables are in institutionalise?

institutionalise has 7 syllables and divides as in-sti-tu-ti-o-na-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 institutionalise?

Close synonyms include commit, institutionalize, send, charge. 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 institutionalise a common word?

institutionalise 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.