numériser
French, verb/ny.me.ʁi.ze/
numériser is spelled N-U-M-É-R-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Numériser is a French verb meaning “to digitize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Représenter un signal (caractère, image, impulsion, etc. ) sous forme numérique”.
What does numériser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to digitize
- 2
to scan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Représenter un signal (caractère, image, impulsion, etc. ) sous forme numérique. 2. Scanner un document pour en copier et convertir le contenu dans une forme numérique.
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 numériser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- numérisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- numérisé participle past
- numérise first-person indicative present
- numérises indicative present second-person
- numérisons first-person indicative plural
- numérisez indicative plural present
- numérisent indicative plural present
- numérisais first-person imperfect indicative
- numérisait imperfect indicative singular
- numérisions first-person imperfect indicative
- numérisiez imperfect indicative plural
- numérisaient imperfect indicative plural
- numérisai first-person historic indicative
- numérisas historic indicative past
- numérisa historic indicative past
- numérisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce numériser?
- /ny.me.ʁi.ze/
- \ny.me.ʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to numériser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is numériser in French?
numériser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).