cristalliser
\kʁis.ta.li.ze\
The verdict
“cristalliser” is uncommon French (frequency #51,992 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,992
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Congeler en manière de cristal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cristalliser · cristalliser · French
cristalliser · rank #51,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,992
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crasher
Nearest frequency peer: crasher (-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 « cristalliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craquage
craquage
48,012 corpus weight
- crase
crase
48,011 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
48,010 corpus weight
- cristalliser
cristalliser
48,009 corpus weight
- critiquable
critiquable
48,008 corpus weight
- créditer
créditer
48,007 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cristalliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cristalliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cristalliser is uncommon French at frequency #51,992 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁis.ta.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cristalliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cristalliser du sucre.
Cristalliser une situation, les tensions, les rancœurs.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).