politiser
\pɔ.li.ti.ze\
The verdict
“politiser” is uncommon French (frequency #66,237 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,237
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Donner un caractère politique à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-politiser · politiser · French
politiser · rank #66,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,237
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH poisseux
Nearest frequency peer: poisseux (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “politiser”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pneumologie
pneumologie
33,767 corpus weight
- pods
pods
33,766 corpus weight
- poisseux
poisseux
33,765 corpus weight
- politiser
politiser
33,764 corpus weight
- Polk
Polk
33,763 corpus weight
- pondeuses
pondeuses
33,762 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “politiser” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | politiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ti.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “politiser” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
politiser is uncommon French at frequency #66,237 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ.li.ti.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for politiser, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is politiser, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner un caractère politique à quelque chose.
- 2Donner une conscience politique à quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how politiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moscou essaie de politiser l'aide humanitaire au tiers-monde.
Varsovie politise l'extradition de Polanski
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "politiser", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.