westernisation
noun
westernisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of westernization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-S-T-E-R-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of westernisation is westernisations.
What does westernisation mean?
noun
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of westernization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of westernisation
- westernisations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is westernisation?
Westernisation appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 westernisation come from?
From westernise + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).