mercerisé
French, adjective
mercerisé is spelled M-E-R-C-E-R-I-S-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mercerisé is a French adjective meaning “mercerized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of merceriser. Without its accent, mercerise is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a subi une mercerisation, un mercerisage”.
What does mercerisé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mercerized
verb
- 1
past participle of merceriser
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a subi une mercerisation, un mercerisage.
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 mercerisé
- mercerisée feminine
- mercerisés masculine plural
- mercerisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mercerisé in French?
mercerisé appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).