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palatalisation

palatalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of palatalization.

Meaning of palatalization

Noun

palatalization (countable and uncountable, plural palatalizations)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being palatalized, of pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth that normally is not.
    • The word "nature" is commonly pronounced with a palatalization of the letter t to sound like ch.
  2. (countable) An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized.

Forms of palatalisation

pluralpalatalisations

Questions about palatalisation

What is palatalisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Palatalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of palatalization.

Words near palatalisation in the dictionary

  1. palatal
  2. palatal expander
  3. palatal expanders
  4. palatal hook
  5. palatal hooks
  6. palatalisation
  7. palatalisations
  8. palatalise
  9. palatalised
  10. palatalises
  11. palatalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palatalisation (page history and authors); palatalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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