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sanitise

verb

sanitise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sanitize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-N-I-T-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does sanitise mean?

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of sanitize.

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

Forms of sanitise

  • sanitises present, singular, he/she/it
  • sanitising participle, present
  • sanitised participle, past

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

How common is sanitise?

Sanitise appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).