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angliciser

French, verb/ɑ̃.ɡli.si.ze/

angliciser is a French verb meaning “to anglicise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un caractère anglais à quelque chose, ou employer des manières anglaises”.

What does angliciser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to anglicise

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Donner un caractère anglais à quelque chose, ou employer des manières anglaises. 2. Se façonner aux usages anglais.

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 angliciser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • anglicisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • anglicisé participle past
  • anglicise first-person indicative present
  • anglicises indicative present second-person
  • anglicisons first-person indicative plural
  • anglicisez indicative plural present
  • anglicisent indicative plural present
  • anglicisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • anglicisait imperfect indicative singular
  • anglicisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • anglicisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • anglicisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • anglicisai first-person historic indicative
  • anglicisas historic indicative past
  • anglicisa historic indicative past
  • anglicisâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce angliciser?

  • /ɑ̃.ɡli.si.ze/
  • \ɑ̃.ɡli.si.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 angliciser

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

How common is angliciser in French?

angliciser appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.

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