alphabetize
verbEtymology From alphabet(ical) + -ize.
1
Canada, US 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, alphabetical order