anodize
verb
anodize is a verb meaning “to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide, either as protection or decoration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-D-I-Z-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anodize mean?
verb
- 1
to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide, either as protection or decoration
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anodize
- anodizes present, singular, he/she/it
- anodizing participle, present
- anodized participle, past
- anodise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anodize?
Anodize appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Anodize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide:
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 anodize come from?
From anode + -ize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).