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popularisation

noun

popularisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of popularization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of popularisation is popularisations.

What does popularisation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of popularization

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

Forms of popularisation

  • popularisations plural

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

How common is popularisation?

Popularisation appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 popularisation come from?

From popular + -isation.

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