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democratize

/dɪˈmɑkɹətaɪz/verb

democratize is a verb meaning “To make democratic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-Z-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does democratize mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To make democratic.

  2. 2

    To broaden access to (something), especially for the sake of egalitarianism.

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

How do you pronounce democratize?

  • UK /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/
  • US /dɪˈmɑkɹətaɪz/
  • US /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/

Democratize 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-democratize.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of democratize

  • democratizes present, singular, he/she/it
  • democratizing participle, present
  • democratized participle, past
  • democratise

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

How common is democratize?

Democratize appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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).

Democratize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to make democratic:

LanguageWords
Frenchdémocratiser
Germandemokratisieren
Portuguesedemocratizar
Spanishdemocratizar

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.

Where does democratize come from?

From French démocratiser. By surface analysis, democrat(ic) + -ize.

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