customiser

\kys.tɔ.mi.ze\

/\kys.tɔ.mi.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“customiser” is uncommon French (frequency #75,567 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,567
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnaliser (un objet, un logiciel,etc.) à son goût personnel (par exemple en y ajoutant des accessoires).

Corpus desk

Index FR-customiser · customiser · French

customiser · rank #75,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,567
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH créerons

Nearest frequency peer: créerons (-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 « customiser »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « customiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for customiser
PropertyValue
Headwordcustomiser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kys.tɔ.mi.ze\
Letters10
Frequency rank#75,567
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « customiser » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.customisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « créerons » (#75,566), « customisé » (#75,568), « croupes » (#75,565). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « customiser » est au #75,567. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

customiser is uncommon French at frequency #75,567 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kys.tɔ.mi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnaliser (un objet, un logiciel,etc.) à son goût personnel (par exemple en y ajoutant des accessoires).".

Zero misspellings are on record for customiser in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is customiser, spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personnaliser (un objet, un logiciel,etc.) à son goût personnel (par exemple en y ajoutant des accessoires).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how customiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il souhaite customiser sa voiture.
  2. Les premier déjeuneurs faisaient la queue devant les échoppes de pizza ou customisaient leurs salades. — (Daniel Nayeri, Brigade des crimes imaginaires, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres histoires fantastiques et déglinguées, traduit de l’anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec, Hélium, 2008, page 63)

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Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "customiser"?
"customiser" is spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kys.tɔ.mi.ze\.
What does "customiser" mean?
As a verb, "customiser" means: Personnaliser (un objet, un logiciel,etc.) à son goût personnel (par exemple en y ajoutant des accessoires).
How do you pronounce "customiser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "customiser" is \kys.tɔ.mi.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "customiser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list