intellectualiser
French, verb/ɛ̃.tɛ.lɛk.tɥa.li.ze/
intellectualiser is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-E-R (16 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intellectualiser is a French verb meaning “to intellectualize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Considérer de façon purement intellectuelle”.
What does intellectualiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to intellectualize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Considérer de façon purement intellectuelle. 2. Donner une apparence intellectuelle.
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 intellectualiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- intellectualisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- intellectualisé participle past
- intellectualise first-person indicative present
- intellectualises indicative present second-person
- intellectualisons first-person indicative plural
- intellectualisez indicative plural present
- intellectualisent indicative plural present
- intellectualisais first-person imperfect indicative
- intellectualisait imperfect indicative singular
- intellectualisions first-person imperfect indicative
- intellectualisiez imperfect indicative plural
- intellectualisaient imperfect indicative plural
- intellectualisai first-person historic indicative
- intellectualisas historic indicative past
- intellectualisa historic indicative past
- intellectualisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce intellectualiser?
- /ɛ̃.tɛ.lɛk.tɥa.li.ze/
- /ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥa.li.ze/
- \ɛ̃.tɛ.lɛk.tɥa.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is intellectualiser in French?
intellectualiser appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).