brutalize
/ˈbɹuːtəlaɪz/
"brutalize" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brutalize” is uncommon English (frequency #94,632 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,632
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of brutalise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brutalize · brutalize · English
brutalize · rank #94,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,632
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bronchi
Nearest frequency peer: bronchi (-2 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “brutalize”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Brennen
Brennen
5,375 corpus weight
- broadhead
broadhead
5,372 corpus weight
- bronchi
bronchi
5,371 corpus weight
- brutalize
brutalize
5,369 corpus weight
- bulgur
bulgur
5,366 corpus weight
- caballo
caballo
5,362 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brutalize” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brutalize |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɹuːtəlaɪz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brutalize” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brutalize is uncommon English at frequency #94,632 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbɹuːtəlaɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of brutalise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brutalize, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brutal + -ize. The correct English form is brutalize, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of brutalise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brutalize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison,…
The subconscious activities are not rationalized and humanized, they are in fact more brutalized than ever, inasmuch as under the aegis of military law and under the tacit understanding that necessity knows no law, there is no pity and no mercy in war.
Etymology
From brutal + -ize.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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