ossifier
French, verb/ɔ.si.fje/
ossifier is spelled O-S-S-I-F-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ossifier is a French verb meaning “to ossify (turn to bone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Changer en substance osseuse les parties membraneuses et cartilagineuses”.
What does ossifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ossify (turn to bone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Changer en substance osseuse les parties membraneuses et cartilagineuses. 2. Rendre dur.
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 ossifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ossifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ossifié participle past
- ossifie first-person indicative present
- ossifies indicative present second-person
- ossifions first-person indicative plural
- ossifiez indicative plural present
- ossifient indicative plural present
- ossifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- ossifiait imperfect indicative singular
- ossifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- ossifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- ossifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- ossifiai first-person historic indicative
- ossifias historic indicative past
- ossifia historic indicative past
- ossifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ossifier?
- /ɔ.si.fje/
- \ɔ.si.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ossifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ossifier in French?
ossifier appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).