cristalliser
French, verb/kʁis.ta.li.ze/
cristalliser is spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-L-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cristalliser is a French verb meaning “to crystallize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Congeler en manière de cristal”.
What does cristalliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crystallize
- 2
to freeze
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Congeler en manière de cristal. 2. Rendre intangible, invariable ; figer. 3. Se former en cristaux, soit naturellement, soit par des procédés chimiques. 4. Se former en cristaux, soit naturellement, soit par des procédés chimiques.
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 cristalliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cristallisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cristallisé participle past
- cristallise first-person indicative present
- cristallises indicative present second-person
- cristallisons first-person indicative plural
- cristallisez indicative plural present
- cristallisent indicative plural present
- cristallisais first-person imperfect indicative
- cristallisait imperfect indicative singular
- cristallisions first-person imperfect indicative
- cristallisiez imperfect indicative plural
- cristallisaient imperfect indicative plural
- cristallisai first-person historic indicative
- cristallisas historic indicative past
- cristallisa historic indicative past
- cristallisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cristalliser?
- /kʁis.ta.li.ze/
- \kʁis.ta.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 cristalliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cristalliser in French?
cristalliser 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).