caractériser
French, verb/ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/
caractériser is spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caractériser is a French verb meaning “to characterize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Définir par un caractère distinctif une personne ou une chose”.
What does caractériser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to characterize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Définir par un caractère distinctif une personne ou une chose. 2. Constituer le caractère essentiel d’une personne ou d’une chose. 3. Avoir pour signe distinctif.
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 caractériser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- caractérisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caractérisé participle past
- caractérise first-person indicative present
- caractérises indicative present second-person
- caractérisons first-person indicative plural
- caractérisez indicative plural present
- caractérisent indicative plural present
- caractérisais first-person imperfect indicative
- caractérisait imperfect indicative singular
- caractérisions first-person imperfect indicative
- caractérisiez imperfect indicative plural
- caractérisaient imperfect indicative plural
- caractérisai first-person historic indicative
- caractérisas historic indicative past
- caractérisa historic indicative past
- caractérisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caractériser?
- /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/
- \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.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 caractériser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caractériser in French?
caractériser appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).