popularize

Other forms of popularize

past tense

popularized·

present participle

popularizing·

third person

popularizes·

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 popularize

What does popularize mean?

popularize means "cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in popularize?

popularize has 4 syllables: po-pu-la-rize. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑpjəlɚˌaɪz/.

What is another word for popularize?

Close synonyms include popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise. 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 popularize a common word?

popularize 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.

What rhymes with popularize?

34 words rhyme with popularize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.