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capitalised

adjective, verb

capitalised is an adjective meaning “In capital letters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-E-D, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does capitalised mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    In capital letters.

  2. 2

    Being supplied with capital (such as money and equipment).

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of capitalise (a form of capitalise)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of capitalised

  • capitalized

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is capitalised?

Capitalised appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 57,423rd 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).