alphabetize

English

Alternative forms

• alphabetise (mainly British)

Etymology

From alphabet(ical) +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. (US, Canada, 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.

Derived terms

• alphabetizable
• alphabetization
• alphabetizer
• misalphabetized
• realphabetize
• unalphabetized

 

Related terms

• alphabetic
• alphabetical

 

Translations

to arrange alphabetically

• Catalan: alfabetitzar (ca)
• Faroese: seta í stavrað, stavraða
• Finnish: aakkostaa (fi)
• Galician: alfabetizar, ordenar alfabeticamente
• German: alphabetisieren (de), alphabetisch sortieren
• Greek: αλφαβητίζω (el) (alfavitízo)
• Hungarian: betűrendbe​/​ábécérendbe​/​ábécésorrendbe rak​/​tesz​/​rendez​/​sorol​/​szed
• Interlingua: alphabetisar
• Italian: alfabetizzare (it)
• Portuguese: alfabetar (pt)
• Spanish: alfabetizar (es), ordenar alfabeticamente, poner en orden alfabético
• Swedish: alfabetisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: абеткува́ти (uk) impf (abetkuváty)
• Welsh: rhoi yn nhrefn yr wyddor

See also

• alphabetical order