cannibaliser
French, verb/ka.ni.ba.li.ze/
cannibaliser is spelled C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cannibaliser is a French verb meaning “to cannibalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Accaparer (en particulier, le marché d’un produit déjà commercialisé)”.
What does cannibaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cannibalise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Accaparer (en particulier, le marché d’un produit déjà commercialisé). 2. Utiliser les pièces d’une machine pour en réparer une autre, particulièrement dans le domaine militaire.
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 cannibaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cannibalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cannibalisé participle past
- cannibalise first-person indicative present
- cannibalises indicative present second-person
- cannibalisons first-person indicative plural
- cannibalisez indicative plural present
- cannibalisent indicative plural present
- cannibalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- cannibalisait imperfect indicative singular
- cannibalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- cannibalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- cannibalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- cannibalisai first-person historic indicative
- cannibalisas historic indicative past
- cannibalisa historic indicative past
- cannibalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cannibaliser?
- /ka.ni.ba.li.ze/
- \ka.ni.ba.li.ze\
- [ka.ni.ba.li.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cannibaliser in French?
cannibaliser appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).