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verbalization

noun

verbalization is spelled V-E-R-B-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, verbalization means “An instance of verbalizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of verbalization is verbalizations.

How many letters and syllables are in verbalization?

Letters13: V-E-R-B-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th 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 verbalization?

Verbalization appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).

Forms of verbalization

  • verbalizations plural

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

What does verbalization mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of verbalizing.

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

Verbalization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense An instance of verbalizing:

LanguageWords
Frenchverbalisation
GermanVerbalisierung, Versprachlichung
Portugueseverbalização
Spanishverbalización

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 verbalization come from?

From verbalize + -ation.

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

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