initialiser
French, verb/i.ni.sja.li.ze/
initialiser is spelled I-N-I-T-I-A-L-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Initialiser is a French verb meaning “to initialize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner une valeur initiale à”.
What does initialiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to initialize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner une valeur initiale à. 2. Remettre en état d’usine, remettre à zéro.
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 initialiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- initialisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- initialisé participle past
- initialise first-person indicative present
- initialises indicative present second-person
- initialisons first-person indicative plural
- initialisez indicative plural present
- initialisent indicative plural present
- initialisais first-person imperfect indicative
- initialisait imperfect indicative singular
- initialisions first-person imperfect indicative
- initialisiez imperfect indicative plural
- initialisaient imperfect indicative plural
- initialisai first-person historic indicative
- initialisas historic indicative past
- initialisa historic indicative past
- initialisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce initialiser?
- /i.ni.sja.li.ze/
- \i.ni.sja.li.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 initialiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is initialiser in French?
initialiser appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).