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coloniser

noun

coloniser is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of coloniser is colonisers.

What does coloniser mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.

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

Forms of coloniser

  • colonisers plural

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

How common is coloniser?

Coloniser appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 coloniser come from?

From colonise + -er.

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