neutraliser
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,694
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
neutraliser is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre neutre un acide, un alcali ou sel par une opération chimique. Pronounced \nø.tʁa.li.ze\. Often confused with neutralité and neutralisé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neutraliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nø.tʁa.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for neutraliser is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nø.tʁa.li.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,694 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for neutraliser, with forms such as "enutraliser", "neturaliser", and "neurtaliser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "neutralité", "neutralisé", "neutralisée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is neutraliser, spelled N-E-U-T-R-A-L-I-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre neutre un acide, un alcali ou sel par une opération chimique.
- 2Annuler un flux électrique.
- 3Diminuer sensiblement la force, l’action de quelque chose, rendre inopérant, réduire à rien, à presque rien.
- 4Blesser grièvement ou tuer un suspect par une opération des forces de l’ordre.
- 5Rendre un pays, une ville, un navire neutre, assurer à un pays, à une ville, à un navire l’état de neutralité.
- 6Rendre une arme inopérante en la modifiant de façon irréversible.
- 7Fermer une voie à la circulation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enutraliser,neturaliser,neurtaliser,neutarliser,neutrailser,neutraliesr,neutraliserr,neutralisre,neutralisser,neutralliser,neutralsier,neutrlaiser,neutrraliser,neuttraliser,nneutraliser,nuetraliser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for neutraliser
Misspelling Variants of "neutraliser"
Frequency rank: #15,694 in French
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Nearby French words
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