hydrolyze
verb
hydrolyze is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-L-Y-Z-E. The wrong spelling people search most is hydrolize: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Hydrolyze is a verb meaning “To subject to hydrolysis”.
How many letters and syllables are in hydrolyze?
| Letters | 9: H-Y-D-R-O-L-Y-Z-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hydrolize, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell hydrolyze?
Hydrolyze is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-L-Y-Z-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for hydrolyze in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is hydrolyze?
Hydrolyze appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
How do you pronounce hydrolyze?
- US
Hydrolyze has 3 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)-Flame,_not_lame-hydrolyze.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydrolyze
- hydrolyzes present, singular, he/she/it
- hydrolyzing participle, present
- hydrolyzed participle, past
- hydrolyse
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hydrolyze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
USTo subject to hydrolysis.
- 2
USTo undergo hydrolysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hydrolyze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense subject to hydrolysis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydrolyser |
| Spanish | hidrolizar |
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.