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professionalize

verb

professionalize is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-L-I-Z-E: 15 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, professionalize means “To make something professional” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in professionalize?

Letters15: P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-L-I-Z-E
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is professionalize?

Professionalize appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 professionalize?

    Professionalize has 5 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 professionalize

    • professionalizes present, singular, he/she/it
    • professionalizing participle, present
    • professionalized participle, past
    • professionalise

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

    What does professionalize mean?

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

    verb

    1. 1

      To make something professional.

    2. 2

      To advance an occupation to the level of a profession.

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

    Professionalize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense make something professional:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchprofessionnaliser
    Germanprofessionalisieren
    Portugueseprofissionalizar
    Spanishprofesionalizar

    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.

    Where does professionalize come from?

    From professional + -ize.

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

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