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metallization

/ˌmɛtl̩aɪˈzeɪʃən/noun

metallization is a noun meaning “The act or process of metallizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-T-A-L-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of metallization is metallizations.

What does metallization mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process of metallizing

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

How do you pronounce metallization?

  • /ˌmɛtl̩aɪˈzeɪʃən/

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

Forms of metallization

  • metallizations plural
  • metallisation

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

How common is metallization?

Metallization appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 metallization come from?

From metal + -ization.

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