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urbanisation

noun

urbanisation is spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, urbanisation means “Alternative spelling of urbanization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of urbanisation is urbanisations.

How many letters and syllables are in urbanisation?

Letters12: U-R-B-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 43,663rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is urbanisation?

Urbanisation appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd 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 urbanisation

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

Also written: urbanization.

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

Forms of urbanisation

  • urbanisations plural

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

What does urbanisation mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of urbanization.

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

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