realise
verb
realise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-A-L-I-S-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears 18 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does realise mean?
verb
- 1
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce realise?
Realise has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-realise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of realise
- realises present, singular, he/she/it
- realising participle, present
- realised participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is realise?
Realise appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does realise come from?
From real + -ise, possibly from French réaliser and Middle French réaliser (“to make real; to convert (something) into assets or cash”). See realize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).