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urbanize

verb

urbanize is spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-Z-E: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, urbanize means “To make something more urban in character” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in urbanize?

Letters8: U-R-B-A-N-I-Z-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th 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 urbanize?

Urbanize appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 urbanize?

    Urbanize 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 urbanize

    • urbanizes present, singular, he/she/it
    • urbanizing participle, present
    • urbanized participle, past
    • urbanise

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

    What does urbanize mean?

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

    verb

    1. 1

      To make something more urban in character.

    2. 2

      To take up an urban way of life.

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

    Urbanize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    Germanurbanisieren (to make something more urban in character)
    Portugueseurbanizar (to make something more urban in character), urbanizar-se (to take up an urban way of life)
    Spanishurbanizar (to make something more urban in character), urbanizarse (to take up an urban way of life)

    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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