externaliser
\ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“externaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #65,146 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,146
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire devenir externe, et en particulier transférer (une activité) à une société séparée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-externaliser · externaliser · French
externaliser · rank #65,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,146
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expiatoire
Nearest frequency peer: expiatoire (-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 « externaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- euclidienne
euclidienne
34,859 corpus weight
- excédée
excédée
34,857 corpus weight
- expiatoire
expiatoire
34,856 corpus weight
- externaliser
externaliser
34,855 corpus weight
- extractives
extractives
34,854 corpus weight
- Fairbanks
Fairbanks
34,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « externaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | externaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « externaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
externaliser is uncommon French at frequency #65,146 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire devenir externe, et en particulier transférer (une activité) à une société séparée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for externaliser in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is externaliser, spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire devenir externe, et en particulier transférer (une activité) à une société séparée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how externaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne nous dit pas ce qu’ils vont devenir, ni quelles activités pourraient être externalisées, s’étonne Jean-louis Belliot, de la CFDT. (sic, pour Jean-louis)
Synonyms
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.
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