pénaliser
French, verb/pe.na.li.ze/
pénaliser is spelled P-É-N-A-L-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pénaliser is a French verb meaning “to penalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre le droit pénal applicable à”.
What does pénaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to penalize
- 2
to criminalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre le droit pénal applicable à. 2. Infliger une sanction, une punition. 3. Rendre moins compétitif.
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 pénaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pénalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pénalisé participle past
- pénalise first-person indicative present
- pénalises indicative present second-person
- pénalisons first-person indicative plural
- pénalisez indicative plural present
- pénalisent indicative plural present
- pénalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- pénalisait imperfect indicative singular
- pénalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- pénalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- pénalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- pénalisai first-person historic indicative
- pénalisas historic indicative past
- pénalisa historic indicative past
- pénalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pénaliser?
- /pe.na.li.ze/
- \pe.na.li.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 pénaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pénaliser in French?
pénaliser appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).