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factoriser

French, verb/fak.tɔ.ʁi.ze/

factoriser is a French verb meaning “to factorize (to divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire une expression sous la forme d’un produit de facteurs”.

What does factoriser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to factorize (to divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Écrire une expression sous la forme d’un produit de facteurs. 2. Uniformiser les appels à du code redondant, pour qu’il ne soit écrit qu’une fois.

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 factoriser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • factorisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • factorisé participle past
  • factorise first-person indicative present
  • factorises indicative present second-person
  • factorisons first-person indicative plural
  • factorisez indicative plural present
  • factorisent indicative plural present
  • factorisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • factorisait imperfect indicative singular
  • factorisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • factorisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • factorisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • factorisai first-person historic indicative
  • factorisas historic indicative past
  • factorisa historic indicative past
  • factorisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce factoriser?

  • /fak.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
  • \fak.tɔ.ʁi.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 factoriser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is factoriser in French?

factoriser appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).