Urbanisation or urbanization?
urbanisation is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of urbanization”; urbanization is a noun meaning “The process of the formation and growth of cities”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) urbanization is about 2.4 times as common as urbanisation.
What is the difference between urbanisation and urbanization?
| urbanisation | urbanization | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of urbanization | The process of the formation and growth of cities The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | urbanisations | urbanizations |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words | 1.1 times per million words |
Sources: urbanisation and urbanization in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of urbanisation and urbanization
urbanisation
- 1
Alternative spelling of urbanization
urbanization
- 1
The process of the formation and growth of cities
- 2
The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas
- 3
The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, urbanisation or urbanization?
urbanisation appears about once in every 2 million words; urbanization 1.1 times per million words.
urbanisation about once in every 2 million wordsurbanization 1.1 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).