dollarisation
French, noun/dɔ.la.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/
dollarisation is spelled D-O-L-L-A-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dollarisation is a French feminine noun meaning “dollarization (the process of a country adopting the US dollar as its primary currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adoption du dollar US (ou, par extension, d’une autre devise) comme monnaie d’échange officiellement, en…”.
What does dollarisation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedollarization (the process of a country adopting the US dollar as its primary currency)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Adoption du dollar US (ou, par extension, d’une autre devise) comme monnaie d’échange officiellement, en remplacement de la monnaie locale, ou parallèlement, celle-ci pâtissant de la défaveur des acteurs économiques.
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 dollarisation
- dollarisations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dollarisation?
- /dɔ.la.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/
- \dɔ.la.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dollarisation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dollarisation in French?
dollarisation appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).