laïciser
\la.i.si.ze\
The verdict
“laïciser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soustraire une organisation humaine de l’influence religieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laiciser · laïciser · French
laïciser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laïciser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.i.si.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
laïciser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \la.i.si.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for laïciser, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is laïciser, spelled L-A-Ï-C-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soustraire une organisation humaine de l’influence religieuse.
- 2Remplacer le personnel religieux d’un établissement d’enseignement ou d’assistance par un personnel laïque.
- 3Transformer une cérémonie religieuse en une fête laïque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laïciser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même si les sociétés occidentales se sont considérablement laïcisées au cours du XXᵉ siècle, elles restent profondément marquées, dans leur organisation politique et sociale, par la forme de christianisme qu'elles ont pratiqué pendant des siècles.
En vérité, il n’est pas interdit de suggérer que, depuis le Siècle de lumières, et plus spécialement aux XIXᵉ et XXᵉ siècles, la révolution en Europe a eu tendance à laïciser la vie sociale et politique de l'homme sur terre.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.