ostracization
noun
ostracization is spelled O-S-T-R-A-C-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is ostricization: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Ostracization is a noun meaning “The state of being ostracized”. The plural of ostracization is ostracizations.
How many letters and syllables are in ostracization?
| Letters | 13: O-S-T-R-A-C-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ostricization, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell ostracization?
Ostracization is spelled O-S-T-R-A-C-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for ostracization in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is ostracization?
Ostracization appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).
Forms of ostracization
- ostracizations plural
- ostracisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ostracization mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being ostracized.
- 2
The process or practice of ostracizing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ostracization come from?
From ostracize + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).