Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

realise

/ɹˈiəlˌaɪz/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: re-alise
IPA: /ɹˈiəlˌaɪz/

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.

Example Sentences

"[F]aith realiſeth the ſufferings of Chriſt; it looks upon Chriſt as the common treaſury of all grace, as the principle of life, and root of holineſs."
"All joy or ſorrovv for the happineſs or calamities of others, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realiſes the event hovvever fictitious, or approximates it hovvever remote, by placing us for a time in the condition of him vvhoſe fortune vve comtemplate; […]"
"Have faith in God! He shall dispose thy lot, / Nor weep for woe thou realisest not: / They shall precede thee to the better land, / And meet and greet thee on its joyful strand."
"A lucky purchase which he had made of shares in a copper-mine added very considerably to his wealth, and he realised with great prudence while this mine was still at its full vogue."
"Utterly helpleſs, thou wert ſinking for ever, and realiſedſt not the fearfulneſs of thy poſition, for thus wert thou born and nurtured."
"SHE wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."

Etymology

From real + -ise, possibly from French réaliser and Middle French réaliser (“to make real; to convert (something) into assets or cash”). See realize.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: réaliser

Inflected Forms

realises (present, singular) realising (participle, present) realised (participle, past) realised (past) no-table-tags (table tags) glossary (inflection template) realised (first person, past) realisest (archaic, present) realised (past, second person) realisedst (archaic, past) realiseth (archaic, present) realised (past, singular)

Derived Forms

derealise disrealise hyperrealise outrealise realisability realisable realisation realised realiser realising unrealise unrealised

Synonyms

understand realize see recognize recognise agnize agnise actualize actualise substantiate

Rhymes With

realize

Questions

How do you pronounce realise?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹˈiəlˌaɪz/.
What does realise mean?: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
Where does realise come from?: It is traced to French.

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