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humanise

verb

humanise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of humanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-U-M-A-N-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does humanise mean?

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of humanize.

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

Forms of humanise

  • humanises present, singular, he/she/it
  • humanising participle, present
  • humanised participle, past

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

How common is humanise?

Humanise appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 humanise come from?

From human + -ise.

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