Word.ws English Dictionary

orthographizing

orthographizing is the present participle and gerund of orthographize.

Meaning of orthographize

Verb

orthographize (third-person singular simple present orthographizes, present participle orthographizing, simple past and past participle orthographized)

  1. (transitive) To spell correctly or according to usage or pronunciation.
  2. (transitive) To correct in regard to spelling.
    • "In the" coalesced into "ith", which modern reaction has orthographized to "i' th".1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
  3. (transitive) To devise a writing system for a language.

Questions about orthographizing

What is orthographizing the present participle and gerund of?
Orthographizing is the present participle and gerund of orthographize.

Words near orthographizing in the dictionary

  1. orthographist
  2. orthographists
  3. orthographize
  4. orthographized
  5. orthographizes
  6. orthographizing
  7. orthographs
  8. orthography
  9. orthographying
  10. orthograptid
  11. orthogravitropism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: orthographizing (page history and authors); orthographize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “orthographizing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/orthographizing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.