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polariser

noun

polariser is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarizer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-L-A-R-I-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of polariser is polarisers.

What does polariser mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarizer.

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

Forms of polariser

  • polarisers plural

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

How common is polariser?

Polariser appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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 polariser come from?

From polarise + -er.

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