amortize
/əˈmɔːtaɪz/
"amortize" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amortize” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To alienate (property) in mortmain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amortize |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈmɔːtaɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amortize” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for amortize is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈmɔːtaɪz/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
amortize doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”). The correct English form is amortize, spelled A-M-O-R-T-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1To alienate (property) in mortmain.
- 2To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- 3To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
Etymology
From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “amortize”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-M-O-R-T-I-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.