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crystallise

verb

crystallise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of crystallize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L-L-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does crystallise mean?

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of crystallize.

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

Forms of crystallise

  • crystallises present, singular, he/she/it
  • crystallising participle, present
  • crystallised participle, past

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

How common is crystallise?

Crystallise appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).

Where does crystallise come from?

From crystal + -ise.

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