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alphabetizes

alphabetizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about alphabetizes

What is alphabetizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Alphabetizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of alphabetize.

Words near alphabetizes in the dictionary

  1. alphabetizations
  2. alphabetize
  3. alphabetized
  4. alphabetizer
  5. alphabetizers
  6. alphabetizes
  7. alphabetizing
  8. alphabetlike
  9. alphabetological
  10. alphabetologist
  11. alphabetologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabetizes (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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