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fractionalization

noun

fractionalization is a noun meaning “separation into parts by fractionalizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-C-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fractionalization is fractionalizations.

What does fractionalization mean?

noun

  1. 1

    separation into parts by fractionalizing

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

Forms of fractionalization

  • fractionalizations plural

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

How common is fractionalization?

Fractionalization appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 fractionalization come from?

From fractional + -ization.

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