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spiritualize

verb

spiritualize is spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-A-L-I-Z-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, spiritualize means “To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in spiritualize?

Letters12: S-P-I-R-I-T-U-A-L-I-Z-E
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is spiritualize?

Spiritualize appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Forms of spiritualize

  • spiritualizes present, singular, he/she/it
  • spiritualizing participle, present
  • spiritualized participle, past
  • spiritualise

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

What does spiritualize mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.

  2. 2

    To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.

  3. 3

    To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo extract spirit.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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

Spiritualize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to make spiritual:

LanguageWords
Frenchspiritualiser
Portugueseespiritualizar

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.

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