actualiser

\ak.tɥa.li.ze\

/\ak.tɥa.li.ze\/ verb

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The verdict

“actualiser” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,393
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concrétiser, réaliser, faire passer une chose du virtuel au réel (ou plutôt à l’actuel, au sens philosophique ou ancien).

Corpus desk

Index FR-actualiser · actualiser · French

actualiser · rank #34,393 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,393
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH activent

Nearest frequency peer: activent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « actualiser »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « actualiser » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

actualiser vs actualité
70% similar
actualiser vs actualités
70% similar
actualiser vs actualisée
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for actualiser
PropertyValue
Headwordactualiser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ak.tɥa.li.ze\
Letters10
Frequency rank#34,393
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « actualiser »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.actualiserse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « activent » (#34,392), « adressa » (#34,394), « actionnariat » (#34,391). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « actualiser » est au #34,393. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around actualiser (IPA \ak.tɥa.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,393 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for actualiser, with forms such as "acctualiser", "actauliser", and "acttualiser". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "actualité", "actualités", "actualisée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is actualiser, spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-E-R.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how actualiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une graine, par exemple, porte en elle son propre potentiel de croissance, mais elle ne peut actualiser ce potentiel en devenant une plante ou un arbre que dans certaines conditions.
  2. 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).

This word in other languages

realise(English)actualizar(Español)aktualisieren(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acctualiser
  • actauliser
  • acttualiser
  • actuailser
  • actualiesr
  • actualiserr
  • actualisre
  • actualisser
  • actualliser
  • actualsier
  • actulaiser
  • acutaliser
  • atcualiser
  • catualiser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of actualiser - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acctualiser1actauliser2acttualiser1actuailser2actualiesr2actualiserr1actualisre2actualisser1
Edit distance from "actualiser"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "actualiser"?
"actualiser" is spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ak.tɥa.li.ze\.
What does "actualiser" mean?
As a verb, "actualiser" means: Concrétiser, réaliser, faire passer une chose du virtuel au réel (ou plutôt à l’actuel, au sens philosophique ou ancien).
What words are commonly confused with "actualiser"?
"actualiser" is commonly confused with "actualité", "actualités", "actualisée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "actualiser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "actualiser" is \ak.tɥa.li.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "actualiser" come from?
"actualiser" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "actualiser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

alchimiste#34,398accoutumée#34,386ambitionne#34,402abdominaux#34,380

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

absorbent14 variantsannotations14 variantsantithèse14 variantsappendicite14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list