hospitalize
/ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/
"hospitalize" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hospitalize” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hospitalize · hospitalize · English
hospitalize · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hospitalize |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hospitalize” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hospitalize is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hospitalize, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize. The correct English form is hospitalize, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
- 2To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
- 3To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
- 4To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hospitalize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.
Etymology
From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.