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capitalized

adjective, verb

capitalized is an adjective meaning “US and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalised” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-Z-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears 1.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does capitalized mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    US and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalised.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of capitalize (a form of capitalize)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce capitalized?

    Capitalized has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of capitalized

    • capitalised

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is capitalized?

    Capitalized appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th 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 abbreviate capitalized?

    Wiktionary records one abbreviation of capitalized: cap..

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).