grammaticalisation
French, noun/ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/
grammaticalisation is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N (18 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grammaticalisation is a French feminine noun meaning “grammaticalization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Processus diachronique qui transforme un mot purement lexical en morphème ou structure grammaticale”.
What does grammaticalisation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrammaticalization
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Processus diachronique qui transforme un mot purement lexical en morphème ou structure grammaticale.
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 grammaticalisation
- grammaticalisations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grammaticalisation?
- /ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/
- /ɡʁam.ma.ti.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/
- \ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grammaticalisation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grammaticalisation in French?
grammaticalisation appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).