Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dictionarize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dic-tio-nar-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To add (something) to a dictionary.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The word dictionarize has been dictionarized on Wiktionary."
"Our starting point will be data obtained by the Antenas Neológicas Network! (https://www.upf.edu/web/antenas), whose representation in three different lexicographic tools will be analyzed with the purpose of identifying problems in the methodology used to dictionarize — that is, how and what words were selected to be included in dictionaries and how they were represented in their entries — neologisms during the COVID-19 pandemic (sources and corpora of analysis, selection criteria, types of definition, among other aspects)."

Etymology

From dictionary + -ize.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

dictionarizes (present, singular) dictionarizing (participle, present) dictionarized (participle, past) dictionarized (past) dictionarise (alternative)

Derived Forms

dictionarizable

Frequently Paired Words

dictionarization dictionarized

Questions

What does dictionarize mean?: To add (something) to a dictionary.
Where does dictionarize come from?: From dictionary + -ize.

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