fertiliser
noun
fertiliser is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of fertilizer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-T-I-L-I-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fertiliser is fertilisers.
What does fertiliser mean?
noun
- 1
UKAlternative spelling of fertilizer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fertiliser?
- 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-fertiliser.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fertiliser
- fertilisers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fertiliser?
Fertiliser appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th 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 fertiliser
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: fertilizer.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).