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stigmatization

noun

stigmatization is spelled S-T-I-G-M-A-T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stigmatization means “The process or act of stigmatizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stigmatization is stigmatizations.

How many letters and syllables are in stigmatization?

Letters14: S-T-I-G-M-A-T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is stigmatization?

Stigmatization appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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).

How do you pronounce stigmatization?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stigmatization.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stigmatization

  • stigmatizations plural

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

What does stigmatization mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The process or act of stigmatizing.

    the stigmatization of ethnic minorities

  2. 2

    The production of stigmata upon the body.

    the stigmatization of Saint Francis

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

Stigmatization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchstigmatisation (process or act of stigmatizing)
GermanStigmatisierung, Brandmarkung (process or act of stigmatizing), Stigmatisation (production of stigmata upon the body)
Portugueseestigmatização (process or act of stigmatizing)
Spanishestigmatización (process or act of stigmatizing)

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.

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