realise

Other forms of realise

past tense

realised·

present participle

realising·

third person

realises·

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 realise

What does realise mean?

realise means "earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in realise?

realise has 3 syllables: re-a-lise. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹiəˌlaɪz/.

What is another word for realise?

Close synonyms include gain, take in, clear, make, earn. 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 realise a common word?

realise is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 realise?

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