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civilisational

adjective

civilisational is an adjective meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of civilizational” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does civilisational mean?

adjective

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    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of civilizational.

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

How common is civilisational?

Civilisational appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).

Where does civilisational come from?

From civilisation + -al.

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