racisé
French, adjective
racisé is spelled R-A-C-I-S-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Racisé is a French adjective meaning “racialized, othered, of color, not white-skinned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of raciser. Without its accent, racise is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui fait l’objet de racisation”.
What does racisé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
racialized, othered, of color, not white-skinned
verb
- 1
past participle of raciser
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui fait l’objet de racisation. 2. Victime de racisme. 3. Qui n’est pas blanc.
noun: 1. Personne racisée.
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 racisé
- racisée feminine
- racisés masculine plural
- racisées feminine plural
- racisæ neuter
- racisé·e neuter
- racisé.e neuter
- raciséx neuter
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is racisé in French?
racisé appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).