categorise
cat·e·go·riseverb
categorise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-S-E and has 4 syllables (cat·e·go·rise), and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does categorise mean?
verb
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce categorise?
- General-American
Categorise has 4 syllables, split cat·e·go·rise in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-categorise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of categorise
- categorises present, singular, he/she/it
- categorising participle, present
- categorised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is categorise?
Categorise appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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).