territorialisation

\tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\

/\tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“territorialisation” is uncommon French (frequency #96,439 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,439
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait ou action de territorialiser, d’organiser ou de traiter au niveau des territoires.

Corpus desk

Index FR-territorialisation · territorialisation · French

territorialisation · rank #96,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,439
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-9 9 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH terminais

Nearest frequency peer: terminais (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « territorialisation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « territorialisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for territorialisation
PropertyValue
Headwordterritorialisation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\
Letters18
Frequency rank#96,439
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « territorialisation » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.territorialisationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « terminais » (#96,438), « tempura » (#96,437), « tees » (#96,436). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « territorialisation » est au #96,439. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

territorialisation is uncommon French at frequency #96,439 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

territorialisation has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is territorialisation, spelled T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait ou action de territorialiser, d’organiser ou de traiter au niveau des territoires.
  2. 2
    Fait ou action de territorialiser, de diviser en territoires.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how territorialisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une fois l'invention faite, on voit comment elle s'insère dans le système disruptif : elle multiplie et diversifie les emplois du moulin : l'extension du moulin favorise l'industrie rurale au détriment de l'industrie urbaine ; la ruralisation de l'industrie renforce la tendance à la territorialisation économique et politique, et pousse à une « désurbanisa…
  2. Elle propose ainsi une « territorialisation des allocations pour rompre avec l’uniformité de la protection, grâce à une indexation sur le coût de la vie calculée au niveau du territoire ».

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "territorialisation"?
"territorialisation" is spelled T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\.
What does "territorialisation" mean?
As a noun, "territorialisation" means: Fait ou action de territorialiser, d’organiser ou de traiter au niveau des territoires.
How do you pronounce "territorialisation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "territorialisation" is \tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "territorialisation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 18 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

multifonctionnelle#97,186transdisciplinaire#95,414interdépartemental#94,921historiographiques#94,885

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list