generalised
verb, adjective
generalised is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of generalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L-I-S-E-D, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does generalised mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of generalise
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of generalized.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of generalised
- more generalised comparative
- most generalised superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is generalised?
Generalised appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th 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 generalised
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: generalized.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).