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industrialisation

noun

industrialisation is spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N: 17 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, industrialisation means “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of industrialization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of industrialisation is industrialisations.

How many letters and syllables are in industrialisation?

Letters17: I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is industrialisation?

Industrialisation appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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).

How do you pronounce industrialisation?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-industrialisation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with industrialisation

Also written: industrialization.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of industrialisation

  • industrialisations plural

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

What does industrialisation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of industrialization.

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

Where does industrialisation come from?

From French industrialisation, equivalent to industrial + -isation or industrialise + -ation.

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

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