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américaniser

French, verb/a.me.ʁi.ka.ni.ze/

américaniser is spelled A-M-É-R-I-C-A-N-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Américaniser is a French verb meaning “to Americanize (to make American)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Revêtir de la forme, du caractère américain. Il s’emploie surtout avec la forme pronominale”.

What does américaniser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to Americanize (to make American)

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Revêtir de la forme, du caractère américain. Il s’emploie surtout avec la forme pronominale.

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 américaniser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • américanisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • américanisé participle past
  • américanise first-person indicative present
  • américanises indicative present second-person
  • américanisons first-person indicative plural
  • américanisez indicative plural present
  • américanisent indicative plural present
  • américanisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • américanisait imperfect indicative singular
  • américanisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • américanisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • américanisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • américanisai first-person historic indicative
  • américanisas historic indicative past
  • américanisa historic indicative past
  • américanisâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce américaniser?

  • /a.me.ʁi.ka.ni.ze/
  • \a.me.ʁi.ka.ni.ze\
  • [a.me.ʁi.ka.ni.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 américaniser

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

How common is américaniser in French?

américaniser appears about once in every 25 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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