autoriser
French, verb/o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
autoriser is spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Autoriser is a French verb meaning “to authorise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Revêtir d’une autorité”.
What does autoriser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to authorise
- 2
to allow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Revêtir d’une autorité. 2. Mettre en droit de faire une chose, en fournir un motif, un prétexte. 3. Accorder le pouvoir, la faculté, la permission de faire quelque chose. 4. Permettre la commercialisation.
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 autoriser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- autorisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- autorisé participle past
- autorise first-person indicative present
- autorises indicative present second-person
- autorisons first-person indicative plural
- autorisez indicative plural present
- autorisent indicative plural present
- autorisais first-person imperfect indicative
- autorisait imperfect indicative singular
- autorisions first-person imperfect indicative
- autorisiez imperfect indicative plural
- autorisaient imperfect indicative plural
- autorisai first-person historic indicative
- autorisas historic indicative past
- autorisa historic indicative past
- autorisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce autoriser?
- /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
- /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
- \o.to.ʁi.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 autoriser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is autoriser in French?
autoriser appears 8.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).