Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hospitalized

/hˈɑspɪtəlˌaɪzd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables
hos-pi-tal-ized
IPA
/hˈɑspɪtəlˌaɪzd/
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lying in a hospital, having been hospitalized.

Inflected Forms

hospitalised (alternative) more hospitalized (comparative) most hospitalized (superlative)

Derived Forms

Questions

How do you pronounce hospitalized?
The recorded pronunciation is /hˈɑspɪtəlˌaɪzd/.
What does hospitalized mean?
simple past and past participle of hospitalize

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