popularize
"popularize" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“popularize” is uncommon English (frequency #55,656 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,656
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - American and Oxford British spelling of popularise
Corpus desk
Index EN-popularize · popularize · English
popularize · rank #55,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,656
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pondicherry
Nearest frequency peer: Pondicherry (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “popularize”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- polyunsatur…
polyunsaturated
44,347 corpus weight
- Pondicherry
Pondicherry
44,346 corpus weight
- popularize
popularize
44,345 corpus weight
- Poroshenko
Poroshenko
44,344 corpus weight
- poss
poss
44,343 corpus weight
- praiseworthy
praiseworthy
44,342 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “popularize” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | popularize |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “popularize” in English
Rare enough to double-check
popularize is uncommon English at frequency #55,656 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "American and Oxford British spelling of popularise".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for popularize, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From popular + -ize. The correct English form is popularize, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-R-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1American and Oxford British spelling of popularise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how popularize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Saudi yoga trainer Dr. Nouf Marwaai has also been honored with one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Shri, for popularizing yoga.
Etymology
From popular + -ize.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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