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romanisation

noun

romanisation is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Romanisation: non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Romanization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-M-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of romanisation is romanisations.

What does romanisation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Romanisation: non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Romanization.

noun

as Romanisation
  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of Romanization.

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

How do you pronounce romanisation?

  • US
  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Romanization.ogg, En-us-romanisation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of romanisation

  • romanisations plural

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

How common is romanisation?

Romanisation appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).