féminiser
French, verb/fe.mi.ni.ze/
féminiser is spelled F-É-M-I-N-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Féminiser is a French verb meaning “to feminize (make [more] feminine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire du genre féminin”.
What does féminiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feminize (make [more] feminine)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire du genre féminin. 2. Augmenter la proportion, le nombre de femmes. 3. Prendre un extérieur féminin. 4. Prendre le caractère féminin.
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 féminiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- féminisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- féminisé participle past
- féminise first-person indicative present
- féminises indicative present second-person
- féminisons first-person indicative plural
- féminisez indicative plural present
- féminisent indicative plural present
- féminisais first-person imperfect indicative
- féminisait imperfect indicative singular
- féminisions first-person imperfect indicative
- féminisiez imperfect indicative plural
- féminisaient imperfect indicative plural
- féminisai first-person historic indicative
- féminisas historic indicative past
- féminisa historic indicative past
- féminisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce féminiser?
- /fe.mi.ni.ze/
- \fe.mi.ni.ze\
- [fe.mi.ni.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 féminiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is féminiser in French?
féminiser appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).