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tokenise

tokenise is the alternative spelling of tokenize.

Meaning of tokenize

Verb

tokenize (third-person singular simple present tokenizes, present participle tokenizing, simple past and past participle tokenized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
  2. (transitive) To substitute sensitive data with meaningless placeholders.
  3. (transitive) To treat as a token minority.

Forms of tokenise

third-person singular presenttokenises
present participletokenising
past participletokenised
pasttokenised

Words formed from tokenise

Questions about tokenise

What is tokenise the alternative spelling of?
Tokenise is the alternative spelling of tokenize.

Words near tokenise in the dictionary

  1. tokeneth
  2. tokening
  3. tokenings
  4. tokenisation
  5. tokenisations
  6. tokenise
  7. tokenised
  8. tokeniser
  9. tokenisers
  10. tokenises
  11. tokenish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tokenise (page history and authors); tokenize (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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