criminaliser
French, verb/kʁi.mi.na.li.ze/
criminaliser is spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Criminaliser is a French verb meaning “to criminalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Promulguer une loi décrivant une action comme un crime”.
What does criminaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to criminalise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Promulguer une loi décrivant une action comme un crime. 2. Porter, renvoyer une affaire d’un tribunal civil à un tribunal criminel, faire d’un procès civil un procès criminel. 3. Faire croire qu’une action légitime est une affaire criminelle, en manipulant les populations.
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 criminaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- criminalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- criminalisé participle past
- criminalise first-person indicative present
- criminalises indicative present second-person
- criminalisons first-person indicative plural
- criminalisez indicative plural present
- criminalisent indicative plural present
- criminalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- criminalisait imperfect indicative singular
- criminalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- criminalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- criminalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- criminalisai first-person historic indicative
- criminalisas historic indicative past
- criminalisa historic indicative past
- criminalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce criminaliser?
- /kʁi.mi.na.li.ze/
- \kʁi.mi.na.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 criminaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is criminaliser in French?
criminaliser appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).