anesthetize
/əˈnɛs.θə.taɪz/verb
anesthetize is spelled A-N-E-S-T-H-E-T-I-Z-E. The wrong spelling people search most is anesthesize: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Anesthetize is a verb meaning “To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances…”.
How many letters and syllables are in anesthetize?
| Letters | 11: A-N-E-S-T-H-E-T-I-Z-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, anesthesize, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell anesthetize?
Anesthetize is spelled A-N-E-S-T-H-E-T-I-Z-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for anesthetize in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is anesthetize?
Anesthetize appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
How do you pronounce anesthetize?
- UK /əˈniːs.θə.taɪz/
- UK /æˈniːs.θə.taɪz/
- US /əˈnɛs.θə.taɪz/
Anesthetize has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-anesthetize.wav, En-us-anesthetize.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anesthetize
- anesthetizes present, singular, he/she/it
- anesthetizing participle, present
- anesthetized participle, past
- anaesthetize
- anaesthetise
- anæsthetize
- anesthetise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anesthetize mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
CanadaUSTo administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
Just prior to surgery the doctor will anesthetize him and he will sleep for four hours.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anesthetize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense administer anesthesia:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anesthésier |
| German | betäuben, anästhesieren, anästhetisieren |
| Portuguese | anestesiar |
| Spanish | anestesiar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.