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legitimisation

noun

legitimisation is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of legitimization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-G-I-T-I-M-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of legitimisation is legitimisations.

What does legitimisation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKAlternative spelling of legitimization.

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

Forms of legitimisation

  • legitimisations plural

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

How common is legitimisation?

Legitimisation appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 legitimisation come from?

From legitimise + -ation.

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