weaponisation
/wɛpənʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/noun
weaponisation is a noun meaning “The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-A-P-O-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does weaponisation mean?
noun
- 1
The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce weaponisation?
- UK /wɛpənʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of weaponisation
- weaponization
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is weaponisation?
Weaponisation appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 weaponisation come from?
From weaponise + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).