vocalise

Other forms of vocalise

past tense

vocalised·

present participle

vocalising·

third person

vocalises·

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 vocalise

What does vocalise mean?

vocalise means "sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vocalise?

vocalise has 3 syllables: vo-ca-lise. The stress falls on "vo".

What is another word for vocalise?

Close synonyms include vocalize, vocalize, vowelize, vowelise, articulate. 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 vocalise a common word?

vocalise 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.