contextualiser
\kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.ze\
The verdict
“contextualiser” is uncommon French (frequency #68,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,160
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Replacer dans son contexte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contextualiser · contextualiser · French
contextualiser · rank #68,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,160
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH construisirent
Nearest frequency peer: construisirent (-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 « contextualiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conservative
conservative
31,844 corpus weight
- constaterez
constaterez
31,843 corpus weight
- construisir…
construisirent
31,842 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualiser
31,841 corpus weight
- contextuel
contextuel
31,840 corpus weight
- convenaient
convenaient
31,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contextualiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contextualiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #68,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contextualiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contextualiser is uncommon French at frequency #68,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Replacer dans son contexte.".
contextualiser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contextualiser, spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Replacer dans son contexte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contextualiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour bien interpréter les comportements des dauphins et donc les percer, il est primordial de connaitre leur biologie, leur physiologie, leur écologie et leur cognition, mais surtout il est nécessaire de contextualiser leurs comportements.
Je vais te donner, donc, trois exemples pour que tu contextualises un peu mieux le sens de l’expression.
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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