évangéliser

\e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\

/\e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“évangéliser” is uncommon French (frequency #51,838 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,838
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amener par la prédication, par le livre, à accepter la doctrine évangélique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-evangeliser · évangéliser · French

évangéliser · rank #51,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,838
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH étreint

Nearest frequency peer: étreint (-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 « évangéliser »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « évangéliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for évangéliser
PropertyValue
Headwordévangéliser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\
Letters11
Frequency rank#51,838
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « évangéliser » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).évangélisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « étreint » (#51,837), « ôtez » (#51,839), « éperons » (#51,835). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « évangéliser » est au #51,838. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

évangéliser is uncommon French at frequency #51,838 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for évangéliser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is évangéliser, spelled É-V-A-N-G-É-L-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Amener par la prédication, par le livre, à accepter la doctrine évangélique.
  2. 2
    Faire accepter une doctrine ou une opinion quelconque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how évangéliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vraiment, par expérience, je plains le jeune prêtre que l’on envoie, pour ses débuts, évangéliser la Beauce.
  2. Sans doute les gamins qu’il évangélisait n’usaient pas toujours entre eux et avec leurs camarades des villages voisins d’une politesse et d’une mansuétude qui rappelaient la vieille galanterie française et la charité chrétienne, […]

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "évangéliser"?
"évangéliser" is spelled É-V-A-N-G-É-L-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\.
What does "évangéliser" mean?
As a verb, "évangéliser" means: Amener par la prédication, par le livre, à accepter la doctrine évangélique.
How do you pronounce "évangéliser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "évangéliser" is \e.vɑ̃.ʒe.li.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "évangéliser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list