caraméliser
French, verb/ka.ʁa.me.li.ze/
caraméliser is spelled C-A-R-A-M-É-L-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caraméliser is a French verb meaning “to caramelize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transformer du sucre en caramel sous l'action de la chaleur”.
What does caraméliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to caramelize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Transformer du sucre en caramel sous l'action de la chaleur. 2. Mélanger avec du caramel. 3. Enduire de caramel. 4. Se transformer en caramel, ou prendre une couleur caramel du fait de la caramélisation.
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 caraméliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- caramélisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caramélisé participle past
- caramélise first-person indicative present
- caramélises indicative present second-person
- caramélisons first-person indicative plural
- caramélisez indicative plural present
- caramélisent indicative plural present
- caramélisais first-person imperfect indicative
- caramélisait imperfect indicative singular
- caramélisions first-person imperfect indicative
- caramélisiez imperfect indicative plural
- caramélisaient imperfect indicative plural
- caramélisai first-person historic indicative
- caramélisas historic indicative past
- caramélisa historic indicative past
- caramélisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caraméliser?
- /ka.ʁa.me.li.ze/
- \ka.ʁa.me.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 caraméliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caraméliser in French?
caraméliser appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).