alphabétiser
French, verb/al.fa.be.ti.ze/
alphabétiser is spelled A-L-P-H-A-B-É-T-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alphabétiser is a French verb meaning “to teach to read and write” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enseigner à une population analphabète la lecture et l’écriture”.
What does alphabétiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to teach to read and write
- 2
to eliminate illiteracy in (a country)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enseigner à une population analphabète la lecture et l’écriture.
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 alphabétiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- alphabétisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- alphabétisé participle past
- alphabétise first-person indicative present
- alphabétises indicative present second-person
- alphabétisons first-person indicative plural
- alphabétisez indicative plural present
- alphabétisent indicative plural present
- alphabétisais first-person imperfect indicative
- alphabétisait imperfect indicative singular
- alphabétisions first-person imperfect indicative
- alphabétisiez imperfect indicative plural
- alphabétisaient imperfect indicative plural
- alphabétisai first-person historic indicative
- alphabétisas historic indicative past
- alphabétisa historic indicative past
- alphabétisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alphabétiser?
- /al.fa.be.ti.ze/
- \al.fa.be.ti.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alphabétiser in French?
alphabétiser appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).