économiser
French, verb/e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/
économiser is spelled É-C-O-N-O-M-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written French, the 7,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Économiser is a French verb meaning “to economise (to conserve money)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépenser avec ménagement, avec le souci d’épargner”.
What does économiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to economise (to conserve money)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépenser avec ménagement, avec le souci d’épargner. 2. Préserver, en parlant de personnes. 3. Faire des économies.
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 économiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- économisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- économisé participle past
- économise first-person indicative present
- économises indicative present second-person
- économisons first-person indicative plural
- économisez indicative plural present
- économisent indicative plural present
- économisais first-person imperfect indicative
- économisait imperfect indicative singular
- économisions first-person imperfect indicative
- économisiez imperfect indicative plural
- économisaient imperfect indicative plural
- économisai first-person historic indicative
- économisas historic indicative past
- économisa historic indicative past
- économisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce économiser?
- /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/
- \e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze\
- [e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.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 économiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is économiser in French?
économiser appears 8.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).