polarised
verb, adjective
polarised is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of polarise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-L-A-R-I-S-E-D, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does polarised mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of polarise
adjective
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarized.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of polarised
- more polarised comparative
- most polarised superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is polarised?
Polarised appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th 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).
Words people confuse with polarised
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: polarized.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).