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denazification

noun

denazification is spelled D-E-N-A-Z-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, denazification means “The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of denazification is denazifications.

How many letters and syllables are in denazification?

Letters14: D-E-N-A-Z-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is denazification?

Denazification appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).

How do you pronounce denazification?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Knabrupt-denazification.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of denazification

  • denazifications plural
  • de-nazification

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

What does denazification mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.

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

Denazification in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense process of the removal of Nazis:

LanguageWords
Frenchdénazification
GermanEntnazifizierung
Portuguesedesnazificação
Spanishdesnazificación

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.

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