medicalization
noun
medicalization is spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, medicalization means “The act or process of medicalizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of medicalization is medicalizations.
How many letters and syllables are in medicalization?
| Letters | 14: M-E-D-I-C-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is medicalization?
Medicalization appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).
What rhymes with medicalization?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as medicalization.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: decimalization.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of medicalization
- medicalizations plural
- medicalisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does medicalization mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of medicalizing.
Near-synonym: pathologization
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Medicalization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the act or process of medicalizing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | médicalisation |
| German | Medikalisierung |
| Portuguese | medicalização |
| Spanish | medicalización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.