brutaliser
\bʁy.ta.li.ze\
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
- brocanteurs
brocanteurs
16,330 corpus weight
- broussaille
broussaille
16,329 corpus weight
- Bruguière
Bruguière
16,328 corpus weight
- brumisateur
brumisateur
16,327 corpus weight
- brutaliser
brutaliser
16,326 corpus weight
- bugle
bugle
16,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brutaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brutaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁy.ta.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brutaliser » en français
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
- 1Traiter d’une façon brutale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brutaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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