sanitization
noun
sanitization is a noun meaning “The act of sanitizing something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-N-I-T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sanitization is sanitizations.
What does sanitization mean?
noun
- 1
The act of sanitizing something.
- 2
The process of editing a security-classified document in order to reduce its classification level.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sanitization?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-sanitization.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sanitization
- sanitizations plural
- sanitisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sanitization?
Sanitization appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).
Sanitization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | sanitización, saneamiento, desinfectación, desinfección, abstersión, higienización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sanitization come from?
From sanitize + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).