Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tokenize

/ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
to-k-enize
IPA
/ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.

Transitive verb

verb

To substitute sensitive data with meaningless placeholders.

Transitive verb

verb

To treat as a token minority.

Transitive verb

Etymology

Etymology tree English token Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English tokenize From token + -ize.

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/

Usage

Inflected Forms

tokenizes (present, singular) tokenizing (participle, present) tokenized (participle, past) tokenized (past) tokenise (alternative)

Derived Forms

detokenize mistokenize retokenize tokenizable tokenization tokenizer untokenized

Frequently Paired Words

tokenism codify encode

Questions

How do you pronounce tokenize?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/.
What does tokenize mean?
To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
Where does tokenize come from?
Etymology tree English token Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English tokenize From token + -ize.

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