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organise

verb

organise is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-E. The wrong spelling people search most is orginize: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Organise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British standard spelling of organize”.

How many letters and syllables are in organise?

Letters8: O-R-G-A-N-I-S-E
In writing3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, orginize, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 organise?

Organise is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for organise in either form.

organisethe right spelling150 searches a month
orginizei in place of a, z in place of s60 searches a month

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 organise?

Organise appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th 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 organise?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-organise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of organise

  • organises present, singular, he/she/it
  • organising participle, present
  • organised participle, past
  • organize

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

What does organise mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    Non-Oxford British standard spelling of organize.

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

Where does organise come from?

From Middle French organiser. By surface analysis, organ + -ise.

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

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