canoniser
French, verb/ka.nɔ.ni.ze/
canoniser is spelled C-A-N-O-N-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canoniser is a French verb meaning “to canonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Admettre, après un procès canonique, une personne dans le catalogue des saints”.
What does canoniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to canonize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Admettre, après un procès canonique, une personne dans le catalogue des saints. 2. Glorifier comme sacré. 3. Codifier une décision dans un canon, un article du Code de droit canonique.
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 canoniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- canonisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canonisé participle past
- canonise first-person indicative present
- canonises indicative present second-person
- canonisons first-person indicative plural
- canonisez indicative plural present
- canonisent indicative plural present
- canonisais first-person imperfect indicative
- canonisait imperfect indicative singular
- canonisions first-person imperfect indicative
- canonisiez imperfect indicative plural
- canonisaient imperfect indicative plural
- canonisai first-person historic indicative
- canonisas historic indicative past
- canonisa historic indicative past
- canonisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canoniser?
- /ka.nɔ.ni.ze/
- \ka.nɔ.ni.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 canoniser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is canoniser in French?
canoniser appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).