rationaliser
French, verb/ʁa.sjɔ.na.li.ze/
rationaliser is spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rationaliser is a French verb meaning “to rationalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus rationnel”.
What does rationaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rationalize
- 2
to streamline (to make more efficient)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus rationnel. 2. Réorganiser une entreprise ou une organisation pour la rendre plus efficace. 3. Simplifier une expression sans en changer 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 rationaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rationalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rationalisé participle past
- rationalise first-person indicative present
- rationalises indicative present second-person
- rationalisons first-person indicative plural
- rationalisez indicative plural present
- rationalisent indicative plural present
- rationalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- rationalisait imperfect indicative singular
- rationalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- rationalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- rationalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- rationalisai first-person historic indicative
- rationalisas historic indicative past
- rationalisa historic indicative past
- rationalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rationaliser?
- /ʁa.sjɔ.na.li.ze/
- \ʁa.sjɔ.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 rationaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rationaliser in French?
rationaliser appears 1.0 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).