brutaliser

\bʁy.ta.li.ze\

/\bʁy.ta.li.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“brutaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #83,675 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,675
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter d’une façon brutale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brutaliser · brutaliser · French

brutaliser · rank #83,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,675
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH brumisateur

Nearest frequency peer: brumisateur (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « brutaliser »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brutaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brutaliser
PropertyValue
Headwordbrutaliser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁy.ta.li.ze\
Letters10
Frequency rank#83,675
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brutaliser » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).brutalisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « brumisateur » (#83,674), « Bruguière » (#83,673), « bugle » (#83,677). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brutaliser » est au #83,675. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

brutaliser is uncommon French at frequency #83,675 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁy.ta.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traiter d’une façon brutale.".

Zero misspellings are on record for brutaliser in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brutaliser, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Traiter d’une façon brutale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how brutaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le coffre-fort ne veut pas être brutalisé, violenté ; il faut user de douceur avec lui, le caresser longuement. Une pince-monseigneur, un chalumeau ? Allons donc. Un petit air de flûte. Le charme opère.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brutaliser"?
"brutaliser" is spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁy.ta.li.ze\.
What does "brutaliser" mean?
As a verb, "brutaliser" means: Traiter d’une façon brutale.
How do you pronounce "brutaliser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brutaliser" is \bʁy.ta.li.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brutaliser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list