institutionnaliser
\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“institutionnaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #79,419 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,419
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner un caractère institutionnel à (quelque chose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-institutionnaliser · institutionnaliser · French
institutionnaliser · rank #79,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,419
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installateurs
Nearest frequency peer: installateurs (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « institutionnaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insaturés
insaturés
20,585 corpus weight
- insomniaques
insomniaques
20,584 corpus weight
- installateu…
installateurs
20,583 corpus weight
- institution…
institutionnaliser
20,582 corpus weight
- instrus
instrus
20,581 corpus weight
- interligne
interligne
20,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « institutionnaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | institutionnaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Frequency rank | #79,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « institutionnaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
institutionnaliser is uncommon French at frequency #79,419 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donner un caractère institutionnel à (quelque chose).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for institutionnaliser in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is institutionnaliser, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner un caractère institutionnel à (quelque chose).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how institutionnaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, pour beaucoup de sociologues des religions, il apparaît de plus en plus clair que certains mouvements religieux s’institutionnalisent et qu'ils ne sont pas toujours des mouvements situés à droite dans le spectre politique.
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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