instrumentaliser
French, verb/ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/
instrumentaliser is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-E-R (16 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Instrumentaliser is a French verb meaning “to instrumentalize, to exploit, to use (for selfish gains)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Utiliser comme instrument, détourner quelque chose de son orientation originale pour l’utiliser à son profit”.
What does instrumentaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to instrumentalize, to exploit, to use (for selfish gains)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Utiliser comme instrument, détourner quelque chose de son orientation originale pour l’utiliser à son profit. 2. Considérer une personne sous un angle utilitaire, chercher à la manœuvrer comme un simple instrument pour en tirer un avantage ou une satisfaction personnelle.
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 instrumentaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- instrumentalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- instrumentalisé participle past
- instrumentalise first-person indicative present
- instrumentalises indicative present second-person
- instrumentalisons first-person indicative plural
- instrumentalisez indicative plural present
- instrumentalisent indicative plural present
- instrumentalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- instrumentalisait imperfect indicative singular
- instrumentalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- instrumentalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- instrumentalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- instrumentalisai first-person historic indicative
- instrumentalisas historic indicative past
- instrumentalisa historic indicative past
- instrumentalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce instrumentaliser?
- /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/
- \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze\
- [ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is instrumentaliser in French?
instrumentaliser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).