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actualiser

French, verb/ak.tɥa.li.ze/

actualiser is spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Actualiser is a French verb meaning “to update (to make something up to date); to refresh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Concrétiser, réaliser, faire passer une chose du virtuel au réel (ou plutôt à l’actuel, au sens philosophique…”.

What does actualiser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to update (to make something up to date); to refresh

  2. 2

    to actualize

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Concrétiser, réaliser, faire passer une chose du virtuel au réel (ou plutôt à l’actuel, au sens philosophique ou ancien). 2. Mettre à jour.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of actualiser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • actualisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • actualisé participle past
  • actualise first-person indicative present
  • actualises indicative present second-person
  • actualisons first-person indicative plural
  • actualisez indicative plural present
  • actualisent indicative plural present
  • actualisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • actualisait imperfect indicative singular
  • actualisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • actualisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • actualisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • actualisai first-person historic indicative
  • actualisas historic indicative past
  • actualisa historic indicative past
  • actualisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce actualiser?

  • /ak.tɥa.li.ze/
  • \ak.tɥa.li.ze\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to actualiser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is actualiser in French?

actualiser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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