baptiser
French, verb/ba.ti.ze/
baptiser is spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baptiser is a French verb meaning “to baptise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre chrétien par le baptême”.
What does baptiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to baptise
- 2
to christen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre chrétien par le baptême. 2. Donner un nom par le baptême. 3. Faire une cérémonie qui accompagne le baptême. 4. Inaugurer quelque chose ayant une certaine envergure lors d’une cérémonie, souvent en la nommant.
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 baptiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- baptisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- baptisé participle past
- baptise first-person indicative present
- baptises indicative present second-person
- baptisons first-person indicative plural
- baptisez indicative plural present
- baptisent indicative plural present
- baptisais first-person imperfect indicative
- baptisait imperfect indicative singular
- baptisions first-person imperfect indicative
- baptisiez imperfect indicative plural
- baptisaient imperfect indicative plural
- baptisai first-person historic indicative
- baptisas historic indicative past
- baptisa historic indicative past
- baptisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baptiser?
- /ba.ti.ze/
- \ba.ti.ze\
- [ba.ti.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 baptiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baptiser in French?
baptiser appears 1.3 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).