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fossilised

adjective

fossilised is an adjective meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fossilized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-S-S-I-L-I-S-E-D, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fossilised mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of fossilized.

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

How common is fossilised?

Fossilised appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th 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).