authorisation
noun
authorisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-H-O-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of authorisation is authorisations.
What does authorisation mean?
noun
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce authorisation?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-authorisation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of authorisation
- authorisations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is authorisation?
Authorisation appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with authorisation
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: authorization.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).