anglicise
/ˈæŋɡlɪsaɪz/verb
anglicise is a verb meaning “To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-L-I-C-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anglicise mean?
verb
- 1
To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
- 2
To dub or translate into English.
- 3
To become English.
verb
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of anglicise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anglicise?
- /ˈæŋɡlɪsaɪz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-anglicize.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anglicise
- anglicises present, singular, he/she/it
- anglicising participle, present
- anglicised participle, past
- anglicize US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anglicise?
Anglicise appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Anglicise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | angliciser , s'angliciser |
| German | anglisieren , sich anglisieren |
| Portuguese | anglicizar |
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.
Where does anglicise come from?
From Latin anglic(us) + -ise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).