infantilize
/ɪnˈfæn.tɪ.laɪz/verb
infantilize is spelled I-N-F-A-N-T-I-L-I-Z-E. The wrong spelling people search most is infantalize: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Infantilize is a verb meaning “To reduce (an adult) to the state or status of an infant”.
How do you spell infantilize?
Infantilize is spelled I-N-F-A-N-T-I-L-I-Z-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for infantilize 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.
What does infantilize mean?
verb
- 1
To reduce (an adult) to the state or status of an infant.
- 2
To treat (an adult) like a child.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce infantilize?
- US /ɪnˈfæn.tɪ.laɪz/
Infantilize has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-infantilize.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of infantilize
- infantilizes present, singular, he/she/it
- infantilizing participle, present
- infantilized participle, past
- infantilise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is infantilize?
Infantilize appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Infantilize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to reduce to the state of an infant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | infantiliser |
| German | infantilisieren |
| Portuguese | infantilizar |
| Spanish | infantilizar |
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 infantilize come from?
From infantile + -ize (“make into”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).