Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

footballification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: foot-bal-li-fi-ca-tion
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act or process of footballifying.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"There’s a sea change going on in cycling, a kind of footballification of support, as a non-traditional team sport is shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all model."
"This is footballification – the ‘my club right or wrong’ modus operandi and it has leaked into other areas of society. You will have seen the sack of stained washing that passes for the Prime Minister getting booed as he went into St Paul’s with his wife. Within hours this had been subjected to footballification and a defence of the PM had been invented."
"It’s not just the debates around the ‘stolen’ designs, or the potential threat of a lawsuit from Nintendo (and the footballification of this issue)."

Etymology

From football + -ification.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: football

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does footballification mean?: The act or process of footballifying.
Where does footballification come from?: From football + -ification.

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