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sterilisation

noun

sterilisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sterilization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-R-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sterilisation is sterilisations.

What does sterilisation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of sterilization.

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

Forms of sterilisation

  • sterilisations plural

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

How common is sterilisation?

Sterilisation appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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).

Words people confuse with sterilisation

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

sterilisation vs sterilization20 G

Also written: sterilization.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).