nationalise
"nationalise" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nationalise” is uncommon English (frequency #90,759 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,759
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nationalise · nationalise · English
nationalise · rank #90,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,759
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH needa
Nearest frequency peer: needa (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “nationalise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nationalise
nationalise
9,242 corpus weight
- needa
needa
9,240 corpus weight
- Neeley
Neeley
9,239 corpus weight
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neuroanatomy
9,237 corpus weight
- neurophysio…
neurophysiological
9,236 corpus weight
- neuroprotec…
neuroprotective
9,235 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nationalise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nationalise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nationalise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nationalise is uncommon English at frequency #90,759 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nationalise, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French nationaliser, equivalent to national + -ise. The correct English form is nationalise, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nationalise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.
Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission.
Etymology
From French nationaliser, equivalent to national + -ise.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).