capitalisation

Other forms of capitalisation

plural

capitalisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about capitalisation

What does capitalisation mean?

capitalisation means "writing in capital letters". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capitalisation?

capitalisation has 7 syllables: ca-pi-ta-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for capitalisation?

Close synonyms include capitalization, capitalization, capitalization, capitalization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capitalisation a common word?

capitalisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.