capitaliser
French, verb/ka.pi.ta.li.ze/
capitaliser is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capitaliser is a French verb meaning “to capitalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transformer une valeur en capital, ou ajouter le revenu au capital”.
What does capitaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to capitalize
- 2
to capitalize
capitaliser les intérêts
- 3
to hoard, to stockpile
- 4
to capitalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Transformer une valeur en capital, ou ajouter le revenu au capital. 2. Accumuler de manière à former un capital. 3. Mettre une majuscule à la première lettre d’un mot. 4. Travailler pour augmenter la valeur totale d’un peuplement, par exemple en éliminant les arbres mal conformés pour laisser les beaux arbres grossir.
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 capitaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- capitalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- capitalisé participle past
- capitalise first-person indicative present
- capitalises indicative present second-person
- capitalisons first-person indicative plural
- capitalisez indicative plural present
- capitalisent indicative plural present
- capitalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- capitalisait imperfect indicative singular
- capitalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- capitalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- capitalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- capitalisai first-person historic indicative
- capitalisas historic indicative past
- capitalisa historic indicative past
- capitalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capitaliser?
- /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/
- \ka.pi.ta.li.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 capitaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capitaliser in French?
capitaliser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).