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pressurise

verb

pressurise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of pressurize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-E-S-S-U-R-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does pressurise mean?

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of pressurize.

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

Forms of pressurise

  • pressurises present, singular, he/she/it
  • pressurising participle, present
  • pressurised participle, past

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

How common is pressurise?

Pressurise appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

Where does pressurise come from?

From pressure + -ise.

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