pasteurisation
\pas.tœ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“pasteurisation” is uncommon French (frequency #70,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pasteuriser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pasteurisation · pasteurisation · French
pasteurisation · rank #70,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,927
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parient
Nearest frequency peer: parient (-2 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 « pasteurisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paralytique
paralytique
29,078 corpus weight
- paraphe
paraphe
29,077 corpus weight
- parient
parient
29,076 corpus weight
- pasteurisat…
pasteurisation
29,074 corpus weight
- pecs
pecs
29,071 corpus weight
- pelt
pelt
29,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pasteurisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasteurisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.tœ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #70,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pasteurisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pasteurisation is uncommon French at frequency #70,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pas.tœ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de pasteuriser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pasteurisation in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pasteurisation, spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de pasteuriser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pasteurisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La crème après la sortie du pasteurisateur était brusquement refroidie pour éviter les « grémillons » et tout goût de cuit. Nous avons vérifié une fois de plus que la pasteurisation, ainsi pratiquée, ne modifiait en rien les qualités du beurre […].
Dans la laiterie, les technologies utilisables pour la conservation du lait sont […] la pasteurisation basse (chauffage de 30 min. à 63-65°C) ou haute (15 sec. à 72°C).
Synonyms
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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