vulgarization

Other forms of vulgarization

plural

vulgarizations·

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 vulgarization

What does vulgarization mean?

vulgarization means "the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vulgarization?

vulgarization has 5 syllables: vul-ga-ri-za-tion. The stress falls on "za". In IPA it is /ˌvʌlɡɚɪˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for vulgarization?

Close synonyms include vulgarisation, popularization, popularisation, vulgarisation. 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 vulgarization a common word?

vulgarization 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.

What rhymes with vulgarization?

94 words rhyme with vulgarization. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.