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pasteuriser

French, verb/pas.tœ.ʁi.ze/

pasteuriser is spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pasteuriser is a French verb meaning “to pasteurise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traiter divers liquides par les procédés pasteuriens pour détruire les microbes nocifs qu’ils contiennent”.

What does pasteuriser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to pasteurise

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Traiter divers liquides par les procédés pasteuriens pour détruire les microbes nocifs qu’ils contiennent. 2. Stériliser par chauffage pendant 15 secondes, à une température de 75°C, (65° selon d'autres auteurs) un lait qui pourra conserver jusqu'à 1 semaine au réfrigérateur.

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 pasteuriser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • pasteurisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • pasteurisé participle past
  • pasteurise first-person indicative present
  • pasteurises indicative present second-person
  • pasteurisons first-person indicative plural
  • pasteurisez indicative plural present
  • pasteurisent indicative plural present
  • pasteurisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • pasteurisait imperfect indicative singular
  • pasteurisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • pasteurisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • pasteurisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • pasteurisai first-person historic indicative
  • pasteurisas historic indicative past
  • pasteurisa historic indicative past
  • pasteurisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pasteuriser?

  • /pas.tœ.ʁi.ze/
  • \pas.tœ.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 pasteuriser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pasteuriser in French?

pasteuriser appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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