municipaliser
French, verb/my.ni.si.pa.li.ze/
municipaliser is spelled M-U-N-I-C-I-P-A-L-I-S-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Municipaliser is a French verb meaning “to municipalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre (une commune) libre de la gestion des affaires municipales, en les confiant à un conseil municipal élu…”.
What does municipaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to municipalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre (une commune) libre de la gestion des affaires municipales, en les confiant à un conseil municipal élu par les habitants (et non plus à un fonctionnaire d'autorité ou à un seigneur féodal). 2. Faire relever de la municipalité (quelque-chose qui auparavant ne ressortissait pas au conseil municipal).
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 municipaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- municipalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- municipalisé participle past
- municipalise first-person indicative present
- municipalises indicative present second-person
- municipalisons first-person indicative plural
- municipalisez indicative plural present
- municipalisent indicative plural present
- municipalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- municipalisait imperfect indicative singular
- municipalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- municipalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- municipalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- municipalisai first-person historic indicative
- municipalisas historic indicative past
- municipalisa historic indicative past
- municipalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce municipaliser?
- /my.ni.si.pa.li.ze/
- \my.ni.si.pa.li.ze\
- [mynisipalize]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is municipaliser in French?
municipaliser appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).