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radicalise

verb

radicalise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of radicalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-D-I-C-A-L-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does radicalise mean?

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of radicalize.

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

Forms of radicalise

  • radicalises present, singular, he/she/it
  • radicalising participle, present
  • radicalised participle, past

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

How common is radicalise?

Radicalise appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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 radicalise come from?

From radical + -ise.

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