médicaliser
French, verb/me.di.ka.li.ze/
médicaliser is spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médicaliser is a French verb meaning “to medicalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Équiper pour permettre le travail médical”.
What does médicaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to medicalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Équiper pour permettre le travail médical. 2. Donner un caractère médical, assister médicalement.
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 médicaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- médicalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- médicalisé participle past
- médicalise first-person indicative present
- médicalises indicative present second-person
- médicalisons first-person indicative plural
- médicalisez indicative plural present
- médicalisent indicative plural present
- médicalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- médicalisait imperfect indicative singular
- médicalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- médicalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- médicalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- médicalisai first-person historic indicative
- médicalisas historic indicative past
- médicalisa historic indicative past
- médicalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce médicaliser?
- /me.di.ka.li.ze/
- \me.di.ka.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is médicaliser in French?
médicaliser appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).