# analyze

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈæn.ə.laɪz/ · frequency rank #9,012

## Definitions
1. To subject to analysis.
2. To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
3. To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
4. To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

## Etymology
Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).

## Easily confused with
- **analyzed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/analyze-vs-analyzed)
- **analyzer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/analyze-vs-analyzer)
- **analyst** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/analyst-vs-analyze)
- **analyse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/analyse-vs-analyze)
- **analyses** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/analyses-vs-analyze)

## Common misspellings (10)
`aanlyze`, `anallyze`, `analyez`, `analyyze`, `analyzze`, `analzye`, `anaylze`, `anlayze`, `annalyze`, `naalyze`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/analyze