vulgarization
noun
vulgarization is a noun meaning “The process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-L-G-A-R-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vulgarization is vulgarizations.
What does vulgarization mean?
noun
- 1
BritishCanadaUSThe process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people.
- 2
BritishCanadaUSThe process of making something accessible and attractive to the general public; the popular-science presentation of a topic, its popularization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vulgarization?
Vulgarization has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vulgarization
- vulgarizations plural
- vulgarisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vulgarization?
Vulgarization appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Where does vulgarization come from?
From vulgar + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).