hospitalisation
"hospitalisation" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hospitalisation” is uncommon English (frequency #73,273 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,273
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of hospitalization.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hospitalisation · hospitalisation · English
hospitalisation · rank #73,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,273
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homogenization
Nearest frequency peer: homogenization (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “hospitalisation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- holing
holing
26,733 corpus weight
- holistically
holistically
26,732 corpus weight
- homed
homed
26,731 corpus weight
- homogenizat…
homogenization
26,730 corpus weight
- hospitalisa…
hospitalisation
26,728 corpus weight
- hotch
hotch
26,725 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hospitalisation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hospitalisation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #73,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hospitalisation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hospitalisation is uncommon English at frequency #73,273 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of hospitalization.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hospitalisation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is hospitalisation, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of hospitalization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hospitalisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"I'm encouraged by recent reductions in the national 'R' rate and a drop in COVID-related hospitalisations.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).