modernising
verb, adjective
modernising is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of modernise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does modernising mean?
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of modernise
adjective
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernizing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of modernising
- more modernising comparative
- most modernising superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is modernising?
Modernising appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th 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).