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metabolization

noun

metabolization is a noun meaning “The process of metabolizing (transitive senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-T-A-B-O-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of metabolization is metabolizations.

What does metabolization mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The process of metabolizing (transitive senses).

    The metabolisation of gluten was improved after the experimental supplement was administered to coeliac patients.

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

Forms of metabolization

  • metabolizations plural
  • metabolisation

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

How common is metabolization?

Metabolization appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).

Metabolization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense process of metabolizing:

LanguageWords
Frenchmétabolisation

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.