nationaliser
\na.sjɔ.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“nationaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #54,122 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,122
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre national.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nationaliser · nationaliser · French
nationaliser · rank #54,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,122
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Narbonnaise
Nearest frequency peer: Narbonnaise (-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 « nationaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nanotechnol…
nanotechnologies
45,882 corpus weight
- naquirent
naquirent
45,881 corpus weight
- Narbonnaise
Narbonnaise
45,880 corpus weight
- nationaliser
nationaliser
45,879 corpus weight
- nav
nav
45,878 corpus weight
- nidification
nidification
45,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nationaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nationaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nationaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nationaliser is uncommon French at frequency #54,122 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \na.sjɔ.na.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for nationaliser in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nationaliser, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre national.
- 2Opération financière consistant en l’acquisition par une entité publique de la majorité des actions d’une entreprise privée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nationaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écrivain Fernando del Paso, lorsqu’il se réfère à la pastèque dans l’œuvre de Rufino Tamayo, confirme le choix du peintre et écrit que « bien qu’il ne s’agisse pas d’un fruit originaire du Mexique, nous nous sommes si ardemment efforcés de la nationaliser – parce qu’elle arbore les trois couleurs du drapeau mexicain et dans le bon ordre – que nous y som…
Le « socialisme arabe» aura été l'expression de la montée des petites bourgeoisies capables de nationaliser tant bien que mal les hauteurs dominantes de l’économie (banque, commerce extérieur, industries), de procéder à une réforme agraire relative […].
Antonyms
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.
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