industrialiser
\ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.ja.li.ze\
The verdict
“industrialiser” is uncommon French (frequency #66,826 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,826
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Donner le caractère industriel, fabriquer, exploiter en vue du commerce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | industrialiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.ja.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #66,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “industrialiser” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
industrialiser is uncommon French at frequency #66,826 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.ja.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
industrialiser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is industrialiser, spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner le caractère industriel, fabriquer, exploiter en vue du commerce.
- 2Étendre et intensifier les activités industrielles, développer l’industrie.
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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Using “industrialiser”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-A-L-I-S-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.ja.li.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.