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-IZE

Definition: -IZE

-IZE

1. A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -IZE

English words defined with "-IZE": -ation, -ise. (references)
Etymologies containing "-IZE": AsexualizationDigitizeMunicipalize. (references)

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Usage Frequency: -IZE

"-IZE" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "-IZE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: -IZE

Language Translations for "-IZE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(chart, diagram, drawing, -ization, picture, to ... -ize, to change into, to make into, to plan, to transform). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "-IZE"

Words ending with "ize": Cize, Frize. (additional references)

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Anagrams: -IZE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "e-i-z"
 

+1 letter: bize, size, zein.

 

+2 letters: azide, azine, baize, bezil, bizes, cozie, dizen, maize, mizen, prize, seize, sized, sizer, sizes, winze, wizen, wizes, zaire, zeins, zibet, zineb, zowie.

 

+3 letters: agnize, assize, azides, azines, baizes, benzin, bezils, bizone, bizzes, braize, cozied, cozier, cozies, dezinc, ditzes, dizens, doozie, dozier, epizoa, fizzed, fizzer, fizzes, fizzle, fozier, frieze, frized, frizer, frizes, hazier, iodize, ionize, jezail, lazied, lazier, lazies, lezzie, maizes, mazier, mizens, mizzen, mizzle, oozier, phizes, piazze, pizzle, prized, prizer, prizes, resize, ritzes, seized, seizer, seizes, seizin, seizor, sizers, sizier, sizzle, sozine, vizier, winzes, wizens, wizzen, wizzes, zaires, zanier, zanies, zeatin, zechin, zenith, zibeth, zibets, zigged, zinced, zinebs, zinged, zinger, zipped, zipper, zither, zizzle, zoecia, zombie.

 

+4 letters: agatize, agenize, agnized, agnizes, agonize, anodize, apprize, arabize, assizes, atomize, azotise, azotize, azurite, baptize, bedizen, benzine, benzins, benzoic, benzoin, bezique, bizarre, bizones, blintze, blitzed, blitzes, boozier, braizes, brazier, bromize, brulzie, capsize, cazique, citizen, cognize, coziest, crazier, crazies, crozier, cyclize, denizen, deutzia, dezincs, dialyze, diazine, diazole, ditzier, dizened, dizzied, dizzier, dizzies, doozies, doziest, drizzle, dualize, ebonize, elegize, emprize, enzymic, epizoic, epizoon, erotize, fanzine, feazing, feezing, fizzers, fizzier, fizzled, fizzles, floozie, foziest, friezes, fritzes, frizers, frizzed, frizzer, frizzes, frizzle, furzier, fuzzier, gauzier, ghazies, glazier, glitzes, grazier, grecize, grizzle, haziest, heezing, heroize, idolize, imblaze, iodized, iodizer, iodizes, ionized, ionizer, ionizes, ironize, isozyme, itemize, jazzier, jezails, kunzite, kyanize, laicize, laziest, lezzies, lionize, maziest, mestiza, mestizo, mezquit, midsize, mizzens, mizzled, mizzles, muezzin, muzzier, netizen, obelize, odorize, ooziest, outsize, oxazine, oxidize, ozonide, ozonise, ozonize, pectize, peptize, pizzles, poetize, prizers, quizzed, quizzer, quizzes, realize, reseize, resized, resizes, rhizome, ritzier, scherzi, seizers, seizing, seizins, seizors, seizure, sizable, siziest, sizzled, sizzler, sizzles, sozines, spitzes, stylize, swizzle, tizzies, tzigane, tzimmes, unitize, unsized, utilize, viziers, vizored, whizzed, whizzer, whizzes, wizened, wizzens, woozier, zaniest, zappier, zaptieh, zeatins, zebraic, zebrine, zebroid, zecchin, zechins, zenaida, zeniths, zeolite, zeroing, zestier, zesting, zibeths, zilches, zincate, zincite, zincked, zingare, zingers, zingier, zipless, zippers, zippier, zithern, zithers, zizzled, zizzles, zloties, zoecium, zoisite, zombies, zooecia, zootier, zorille.

 

+5 letters: activize, agatized, agatizes, agenized, agenizes, agonized, agonizes, alkalize, amortize, anodized, anodizes, aphorize, apprized, apprizer, apprizes, arabized, arabizes, arborize, archaize, atomized, atomizer, atomizes, atrazine, avianize, azotemia, azotemic, azotised, azotises, azotized, azotizes, azurites, banalize, baptized, baptizer, baptizes, bedizens, begazing, benzidin, benzines, benzoins, benzylic, beziques, bizarres, blintzes, blowzier, booziest, botanize, braziers, breezier, breezily, breezing, bromized, bromizes, bronzier, brulzies, brunizem, calorize, canalize, canonize, caponize, capsized, capsizes, caziques, chintzes, chromize, citizens, civilize, cognized, cognizer, cognizes, colonize, colorize, comprize, cozening, coziness, craziest, creolize, croziers, cruzeiro, curarize, cutinize, cyclized, cyclizes, defuzing, deionize, demonize, denazify, denizens, deputize, deutzias, dezinced, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diazepam, diazines, diazoles, digitize, dimerize, disprize, disseize, ditziest, divinize, dizening, dizziest, downsize, dozening, doziness, drizzled, drizzles, dualized, dualizes, ebonized, ebonizes, elegized, elegizes, emprizes, endozoic, energize, entozoic, enzootic, epizoism, epizoite, epizooty, equalize, erotized, erotizes, eternize, etherize, ethicize, eulogize, exorcize, fanzines, faradize, feminize, fiberize, finalize, fizziest, floozies, fluidize, focalize, foziness, freezing, frenzied, frenzies, frenzily, frizette, frizzers, frizzier, frizzled, frizzler, frizzles, frouzier, frowzier, furziest, fuzziest, gauziest, glaziers, glaziery, glaziest, glitzier, graecize, graziers, grecized, grecizes, grizzled, grizzler, grizzles, haziness, hebraize, hepatize, heroized, heroizes, hizzoner, hominize, howitzer, humanize, idealize, idolized, idolizer, idolizes, imblazed, imblazes, immunize, iodizers, ionizers, ironized, ironizes, isozymes, itemized, itemizer, itemizes, japanize, jarovize, jazziest, jazzlike, kamikaze, khazenim, kibitzed, kibitzer, kibitzes, klutzier, kunzites, kyanized, kyanizes, laicized, laicizes, laterize, latinize, laziness, lazulite, lazurite, legalize, lionized, lionizer, lionizes, localize, logicize, lyricize, magazine, maximize, mazaedia, mazelike, maziness, melanize, melodize, memorize, mestizas, mestizos, metalize, metazoic, mezquite, mezquits, midsized, minimize, misprize, mobilize, monazite, monetize, moralize, motorize, muezzins, muzziest, nasalize, nazified, nazifies, nebulize, netizens, nizamate, notarize, novelize, obelized, obelizes, odorized, odorizes, ooziness, opsonize, optimize, organize, outsized, outsizes, oversize, oxazines, oxidized, oxidizer, oxidizes, ozonides, ozonised, ozonises, ozonized, ozonizer, ozonizes, paganize, patinize, pectized, pectizes, penalize, peptized, peptizer, peptizes, phenazin, pintsize, pizazzes, pizzeria, poetized, poetizer, poetizes, polarize, polemize, pyrolize, quantize, queazier, quizzers, racemize, razeeing, realized, realizer, realizes, rendzina, reseized, reseizes, resizing, rezoning, rhizomes, ritziest, robotize, romanize, ruralize, salinize, sanitize, satirize, schizier, scuzzier, seizable, seizings, seizures, sierozem, simazine, simonize, sinicize, sizeable, sizeably, siziness, sizzlers, sleazier, sleazily, snazzier, sneezier, sneezing, snoozier, soberize, sodomize, solarize, solecize, spritzed, spritzer, spritzes, stylized, stylizer, stylizes, suberize, surprize, suzerain, swizzled, swizzler, swizzles, syzygies, teazling, tetanize, theorize, thiazide, thiazine, thiazole, topazine, totalize, trapezia, trapezii, triazine, triazole, tristeza, tweezing, tziganes, unionize, unitized, unitizer, unitizes, unprized, unseized, unzipped, urbanize, utilized, utilizer, utilizes, valorize, vaporize, velarize, vitalize, vizarded, vizirate, vocalize, vowelize, wheezier, wheezily, wheezing, whizzers, wizening, womanize, wooziest, yahrzeit, zabaione, zaniness, zappiest, zaptiehs, zaratite, zecchini, zecchino, zecchins, zemindar, zenaidas, zenithal, zeolites, zeolitic, zeppelin, zestiest, zibeline, zincates, zincites, zingiest, zippered, zippiest, zitherns, zoisites, zonetime, zooecium, zoogenic, zoophile, zootiest, zorilles, zwieback.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -IZE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 49 5A 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01001001 01011010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#73 &#90 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0049 005A 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

15436039

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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