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vitalize

verb

vitalize is a verb meaning “American and Oxford British English standard spelling of vitalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-T-A-L-I-Z-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vitalize mean?

verb

  1. 1

    American and Oxford British English standard spelling of vitalise.

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

Forms of vitalize

  • vitalizes present, singular, he/she/it
  • vitalizing participle, present
  • vitalized participle, past
  • vitalise

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

How common is vitalize?

Vitalize appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).

Where does vitalize come from?

From vital + -ize.

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