déniaiser
French, verb/de.njɛ.ze/
déniaiser is spelled D-É-N-I-A-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written French, the 192,066th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déniaiser is a French verb meaning “to smarten up (make less stupid or naive)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre quelqu’un moins niais”.
What does déniaiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smarten up (make less stupid or naive)
- 2
to lose one's virginity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre quelqu’un moins niais. 2. Faire perdre sa virginité à un jeune homme ou à une jeune fille.
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 déniaiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déniaisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déniaisé participle past
- déniaise first-person indicative present
- déniaises indicative present second-person
- déniaisons first-person indicative plural
- déniaisez indicative plural present
- déniaisent indicative plural present
- déniaisais first-person imperfect indicative
- déniaisait imperfect indicative singular
- déniaisions first-person imperfect indicative
- déniaisiez imperfect indicative plural
- déniaisaient imperfect indicative plural
- déniaisai first-person historic indicative
- déniaisas historic indicative past
- déniaisa historic indicative past
- déniaisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déniaiser?
- /de.njɛ.ze/
- /de.nje.ze/
- \de.njɛ.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déniaiser in French?
déniaiser appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).