cautériser
\ko.te.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“cautériser” is uncommon French (frequency #98,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,860
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brûler avec un cautère ou un caustique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cauteriser · cautériser · French
cautériser · rank #98,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,860
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catholicos
Nearest frequency peer: catholicos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cautériser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caradec
Caradec
1,146 corpus weight
- caramélisés
caramélisés
1,145 corpus weight
- cardinalice
cardinalice
1,144 corpus weight
- carnavalesq…
carnavalesques
1,143 corpus weight
- catholicos
catholicos
1,142 corpus weight
- cautériser
cautériser
1,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cautériser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cautériser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.te.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cautériser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cautériser is uncommon French at frequency #98,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.te.ʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cautériser in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cautériser, spelled C-A-U-T-É-R-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Brûler avec un cautère ou un caustique.
- 2Détruire par le feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cautériser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c’est Scarbo qui me mord au cou, et qui, pour cautériser ma blessure sanglante, y plonge son doigt de fer rougi à la fournaise !
D’autres […] pratiquent dans le nez des lésions simulant les ulcères de la morve, et cautérisent adroitement les dilacérations, ordinairement avec le nitrate d’argent.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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