collectivize
verb
collectivize is a verb meaning “To organize (a farm or industrial enterprise) on the basis of collective control” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-I-Z-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does collectivize mean?
verb
- 1
To organize (a farm or industrial enterprise) on the basis of collective control.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce collectivize?
Collectivize 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-collectivize.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of collectivize
- collectivizes present, singular, he/she/it
- collectivizing participle, present
- collectivized participle, past
- collectivise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is collectivize?
Collectivize appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Collectivize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | collectiviser |
| German | kollektivieren |
| Portuguese | coletivizar, colectivizar |
| Spanish | colectivizar |
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.