formalization
noun
formalization is a noun meaning “The act of formalizing something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of formalization is formalizations.
What does formalization mean?
noun
- 1
The act of formalizing something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce formalization?
Formalization has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of formalization
- formalizations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is formalization?
Formalization appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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 formalization come from?
From formal + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).