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alphabeticize

alphabeticize is the misconstruction of alphabetize.

Meaning of alphabetize

Verb

alphabetize (third-person singular simple present alphabetizes, present participle alphabetizing, simple past and past participle alphabetized)

  1. (Canada, US, transitive) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
    • It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

Forms of alphabeticize

third-person singular presentalphabeticizes
present participlealphabeticizing
past participlealphabeticized
pastalphabeticized

Origin of alphabeticize

From alphabetic + -ize.

Questions about alphabeticize

What is alphabeticize the misconstruction of?
Alphabeticize is the misconstruction of alphabetize.

Words near alphabeticize in the dictionary

  1. alphabeticise
  2. alphabeticised
  3. alphabeticises
  4. alphabeticising
  5. alphabeticity
  6. alphabeticize
  7. alphabeticized
  8. alphabeticizes
  9. alphabeticizing
  10. alphabetick
  11. alphabetico-classed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabeticize (page history and authors); alphabetize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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