médicalisation

\me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\

/\me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“médicalisation” is uncommon French (frequency #82,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,258
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medicalisation · médicalisation · French

médicalisation · rank #82,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,258
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mécontenter

Nearest frequency peer: mécontenter (-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 « médicalisation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médicalisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for médicalisation
PropertyValue
Headwordmédicalisation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#82,258
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « médicalisation » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).médicalisationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « mécontenter » (#82,257), « médisant » (#82,259), « myéline » (#82,256). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médicalisation » est au #82,258. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

médicalisation is uncommon French at frequency #82,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.".

No misspelling variants are generated for médicalisation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médicalisation, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how médicalisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Telle une déferlante, la médicalisation de la mer refoulera hors des usages courants la balnéophilie marginale de ces précurseurs indisciplinés.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "médicalisation"?
"médicalisation" is spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\.
What does "médicalisation" mean?
As a noun, "médicalisation" means: Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.
How do you pronounce "médicalisation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médicalisation" is \me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médicalisation" come from?
"médicalisation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médicalisation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list