urbanize

Other forms of urbanize

past tense

urbanized·

present participle

urbanizing·

third person

urbanizes·

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 urbanize

What does urbanize mean?

urbanize means "make more industrial or city-like". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in urbanize?

urbanize has 3 syllables: ur-ba-nize. The stress falls on "ur". In IPA it is /ˈɝbəˌnaɪz/.

What is another word for urbanize?

Close synonyms include urbanise, urbanise. 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 urbanize a common word?

urbanize 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 urbanize?

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