rabaisser
French, verb/ʁa.bɛ.se/
rabaisser is spelled R-A-B-A-I-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabaisser is a French verb meaning “to humiliate, belittle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre plus bas, redescendre une chose au-dessous du lieu où elle était”.
What does rabaisser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to humiliate, belittle
- 2
to lower, reduce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre plus bas, redescendre une chose au-dessous du lieu où elle était. 2. Amoindrir, rabattre. 3. Rabaisser le caquet à quelqu’un, confondre quelqu’un, le faire taire par autorité ou par raison. 4. Déprécier, estimer au-dessous de la valeur.
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 rabaisser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rabaissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rabaissé participle past
- rabaisse first-person indicative present
- rabaisses indicative present second-person
- rabaissons first-person indicative plural
- rabaissez indicative plural present
- rabaissent indicative plural present
- rabaissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rabaissait imperfect indicative singular
- rabaissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rabaissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rabaissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rabaissai first-person historic indicative
- rabaissas historic indicative past
- rabaissa historic indicative past
- rabaissâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabaisser?
- /ʁa.bɛ.se/
- /ʁa.be.se/
- \ʁa.be.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rabaisser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rabaisser in French?
rabaisser appears 1.9 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).