diaboliser
\dja.bɔ.li.ze\
The verdict
“diaboliser” is uncommon French (frequency #51,409 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,409
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prêter un rôle, des comportements ou des intentions diaboliques ou pernicieuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diaboliser · diaboliser · French
diaboliser · rank #51,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,409
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diabaté
Nearest frequency peer: Diabaté (-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 « diaboliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dessertes
dessertes
48,596 corpus weight
- Diabaté
Diabaté
48,593 corpus weight
- diaboliser
diaboliser
48,592 corpus weight
- digressions
digressions
48,591 corpus weight
- dirhams
dirhams
48,590 corpus weight
- diss
diss
48,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diaboliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diaboliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dja.bɔ.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diaboliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diaboliser is uncommon French at frequency #51,409 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dja.bɔ.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prêter un rôle, des comportements ou des intentions diaboliques ou pernicieuses.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for diaboliser, 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is diaboliser, spelled D-I-A-B-O-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prêter un rôle, des comportements ou des intentions diaboliques ou pernicieuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diaboliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Honni par le Talmud et le Coran, diabolisé par les chrétiens comme symbole de luxure et de gourmandise, le cochon est tout aussi triquard dans la société laïque, obligatoire, gonadoclaste et de surcroît xyloglotte.
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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.
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