customization
noun
customization is a noun meaning “The act of customizing something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears 1.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of customization is customizations.
What does customization mean?
noun
- 1
The act of customizing something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce customization?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-customization.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-customization.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of customization
- customizations plural
- customisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is customization?
Customization appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 customization
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: customisation.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Customization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of customizing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | personnalisation |
| German | Anpassung |
| Portuguese | adaptação, configuração, customização |
| Spanish | personalización, customización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.