pressurized
adjective, verb
pressurized is an adjective meaning “Under pressure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-E-S-S-U-R-I-Z-E-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does pressurized mean?
adjective
- 1
Under pressure.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of pressurize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pressurized?
Pressurized has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pressurized
- more pressurized comparative
- most pressurized superlative
- pressurised
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pressurized?
Pressurized appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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).
Words people confuse with pressurized
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: pressurised.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Pressurized in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | unter Druck (stehend) |
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.