dératiser
French, verb/de.ʁa.ti.ze/
dératiser is spelled D-É-R-A-T-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dératiser is a French verb meaning “derat; rid of rats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser des rats (un lieu)”.
What does dératiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
derat; rid of rats
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser des rats (un lieu).
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 dératiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dératisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dératisé participle past
- dératise first-person indicative present
- dératises indicative present second-person
- dératisons first-person indicative plural
- dératisez indicative plural present
- dératisent indicative plural present
- dératisais first-person imperfect indicative
- dératisait imperfect indicative singular
- dératisions first-person imperfect indicative
- dératisiez imperfect indicative plural
- dératisaient imperfect indicative plural
- dératisai first-person historic indicative
- dératisas historic indicative past
- dératisa historic indicative past
- dératisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dératiser?
- /de.ʁa.ti.ze/
- \de.ʁa.ti.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dératiser in French?
dératiser appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).