cristalliser
\kʁis.ta.li.ze\
The verdict
“cristalliser” is an uncommon French word, ranked #51,992 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #51,992
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Congeler en manière de cristal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cristalliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁis.ta.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cristalliser” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cristalliser is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁis.ta.li.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,992 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
cristalliser has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cristalliser, spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-L-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Congeler en manière de cristal.
- 2Rendre intangible, invariable ; figer.
- 3Se former en cristaux, soit naturellement, soit par des procédés chimiques.
- 4Se former en cristaux, soit naturellement, soit par des procédés chimiques.
- 5Se préciser et s’accroître peu à peu, en parlant d’un sentiment, ou de la personne qui éprouve ce sentiment.
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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Using “cristalliser”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-S-T-A-L-L-I-S-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁis.ta.li.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.