necrotizing
adjective, verb
necrotizing is an adjective meaning “Causing necrosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-C-R-O-T-I-Z-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does necrotizing mean?
adjective
- 1
Causing necrosis.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of necrotize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of necrotizing
- necrotising
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is necrotizing?
Necrotizing appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).
Necrotizing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nécrosant |
| Spanish | necrotizante |
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.