criminaliser
\kʁi.mi.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“criminaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #53,237 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,237
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promulguer une loi décrivant une action comme un crime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criminaliser · criminaliser · French
criminaliser · rank #53,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,237
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cric
Nearest frequency peer: cric (-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 « criminaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CPP
CPP
46,767 corpus weight
- crawl
crawl
46,766 corpus weight
- cric
cric
46,765 corpus weight
- criminaliser
criminaliser
46,764 corpus weight
- crins
crins
46,763 corpus weight
- criques
criques
46,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criminaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criminaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.mi.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criminaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criminaliser is uncommon French at frequency #53,237 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁi.mi.na.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for criminaliser in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is criminaliser, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Promulguer une loi décrivant une action comme un crime.
- 2Porter, renvoyer une affaire d’un tribunal civil à un tribunal criminel, faire d’un procès civil un procès criminel.
- 3Faire croire qu’une action légitime est une affaire criminelle, en manipulant les populations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criminaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par la nature, la forme et l'esprit de la prévention, on remonte à la pensée mère, à l'élément substantiel de ce procès innomé et stupide, où la suprématie gouvernementale, l’interprétation intolérable de l’ordre public, violent et criminalisent le droit privé et le droit commun sous le couvert de la justice.
Dès qu’il y a manifestation, on lâche les milices du pouvoir qui cassent et fracassent. La peur reprend le dessus et le mouvement est brisé, clochardisé, criminalisé.
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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