actualise
\ak.tɥa.liz\
The verdict
“actualise” is uncommon French (frequency #51,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,247
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe actualiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-actualise · actualise · French
actualise · rank #51,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,247
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acouphènes
Nearest frequency peer: acouphènes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « actualise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abdoul
Abdoul
48,757 corpus weight
- abordait
abordait
48,756 corpus weight
- acouphènes
acouphènes
48,755 corpus weight
- actualise
actualise
48,754 corpus weight
- acérées
acérées
48,753 corpus weight
- Adjani
Adjani
48,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « actualise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | actualise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ak.tɥa.liz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « actualise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
actualise is uncommon French at frequency #51,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ak.tɥa.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for actualise, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is actualise, spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe actualiser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe actualiser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe actualiser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe actualiser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe actualiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how actualise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La possession-destruction s’actualise quand le sujet, possédé par exemple par une bête humanisée et hommisée qui le dévore de l’intérieur, finit par mourir de cachexie, comme chez A. Doremieux : « Symbiose phase un » (in Couloirs sans issue) ou « Les bêtes » (Promenades au bord du gouffre).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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