penalisation

Other forms of penalisation

plural

penalisations·

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 penalisation

What does penalisation mean?

penalisation means "the act of punishing".

How many syllables are in penalisation?

penalisation has 6 syllables: pe-na-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for penalisation?

Close synonyms include punishment, penalty, penalization. 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 penalisation a common word?

penalisation 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.