pasteurisé
\pas.tø.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“pasteurisé” is uncommon French (frequency #58,142 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,142
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soumis à un traitement de pasteurisation, en parlant d’un aliment, c’est à dire chauffé afin d’en éliminer les éléments pathogènes, puis refroidi de façon rapide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pasteurise · pasteurisé · French
pasteurisé · rank #58,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,142
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passionnelle
Nearest frequency peer: passionnelle (-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 « pasteurisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pariez
pariez
41,862 corpus weight
- parpaings
parpaings
41,861 corpus weight
- passionnelle
passionnelle
41,860 corpus weight
- pasteurisé
pasteurisé
41,859 corpus weight
- patria
patria
41,858 corpus weight
- Pausanias
Pausanias
41,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pasteurisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasteurisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pas.tø.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pasteurisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pasteurisé is uncommon French at frequency #58,142 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pas.tø.ʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soumis à un traitement de pasteurisation, en parlant d’un aliment, c’est à dire chauffé afin d’en éliminer les éléments pathogènes, puis refroidi de façon rapide.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pasteurisé, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pasteurisé, spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Soumis à un traitement de pasteurisation, en parlant d’un aliment, c’est à dire chauffé afin d’en éliminer les éléments pathogènes, puis refroidi de façon rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pasteurisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais aussi loin que je m’en souvienne, les deux sujets à éviter coûte que coûte lors des déjeuners de famille furent la politique et le cinéma français (à cette liste s’ajoutera le camembert pasteurisé).
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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