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Rationaliserationalize is a coined term in linguistics and lexicography that refers to the intersection of the British English verb rationalise and the American English verb rationalize. It is typically used as a portmanteau to describe issues, processes, or phenomena involving spelling variants of the same word, adaptation across dialects, or cross-market text normalization. The British form uses -ise (rationalise) while the American form uses -ize (rationalize).

In practice, rationaliserationalize may appear in discussions about spell-checking software, translation, or corpus analysis, where both spellings must be recognized as equivalent or mapped to a single canonical form. The concept can also illustrate how authors switch between variants or how editors enforce consistent spelling across a document or project.

Morphology: The base verbs share etymology from rational + -ise/-ize suffixes; there are derived forms such as rationaliser (British noun for one who rationalises) and rationalizer (American). The compounded term does not represent a standard lexeme in major dictionaries but serves as a descriptive label.

See also: British English spelling, American English spelling, spelling variation, portmanteau, lexicography.