diaboliser
French, verb/dja.bɔ.li.ze/
diaboliser is spelled D-I-A-B-O-L-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diaboliser is a French verb meaning “to demonise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prêter un rôle, des comportements ou des intentions diaboliques ou pernicieuses”.
What does diaboliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demonise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prêter un rôle, des comportements ou des intentions diaboliques ou pernicieuses.
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 diaboliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- diabolisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- diabolisé participle past
- diabolise first-person indicative present
- diabolises indicative present second-person
- diabolisons first-person indicative plural
- diabolisez indicative plural present
- diabolisent indicative plural present
- diabolisais first-person imperfect indicative
- diabolisait imperfect indicative singular
- diabolisions first-person imperfect indicative
- diabolisiez imperfect indicative plural
- diabolisaient imperfect indicative plural
- diabolisai first-person historic indicative
- diabolisas historic indicative past
- diabolisa historic indicative past
- diabolisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diaboliser?
- /dja.bɔ.li.ze/
- \dja.bɔ.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 diaboliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diaboliser in French?
diaboliser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).