commodify
/kəˈmɑ.dɪ.faɪ/verb
commodify is a verb meaning “To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-M-M-O-D-I-F-Y and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does commodify mean?
verb
- 1
To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce commodify?
- UK /kəˈmɒ.dɪ.faɪ/
- US /kəˈmɑ.dɪ.faɪ/
Commodify has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-commodify.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of commodify
- commodifies present, singular, he/she/it
- commodifying participle, present
- commodified participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is commodify?
Commodify appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).
Commodify in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to make something a commodity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | kommerzialisieren, kommodifizieren |
| Portuguese | comercializar |
| Spanish | mercantilizar |
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.