financialization
/fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/noun
financialization is a noun meaning “Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-A-N-C-I-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does financialization mean?
noun
- 1
Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- 2
The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce financialization?
- UK /fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of financialization
- financialisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is financialization?
Financialization appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 financialization come from?
From financialize + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).