pulverize
verb
pulverize is a verb meaning “American and Oxford British spelling of pulverise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-L-V-E-R-I-Z-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does pulverize mean?
verb
- 1
American and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pulverize?
- US
Pulverize 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). Recordings: En-us-pulverize.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pulverize
- pulverizes present, singular, he/she/it
- pulverizing participle, present
- pulverized participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pulverize?
Pulverize appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).