rectifier
French, verb/ʁɛk.ti.fje/
rectifier is spelled R-E-C-T-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rectifier is a French verb meaning “to rectify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Corriger ou améliorer une chose, la remettre dans l’état, dans l’ordre où elle doit être”.
What does rectifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rectify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Corriger ou améliorer une chose, la remettre dans l’état, dans l’ordre où elle doit être. 2. Distiller de nouveau pour rendre plus pur un produit. 3. Rendre droit. 4. Tuer.
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 rectifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rectifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rectifié participle past
- rectifie first-person indicative present
- rectifies indicative present second-person
- rectifions first-person indicative plural
- rectifiez indicative plural present
- rectifient indicative plural present
- rectifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- rectifiait imperfect indicative singular
- rectifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- rectifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- rectifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- rectifiai first-person historic indicative
- rectifias historic indicative past
- rectifia historic indicative past
- rectifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rectifier?
- /ʁɛk.ti.fje/
- \ʁɛk.ti.fje\
- [ʁɛk.ti.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rectifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rectifier in French?
rectifier appears 2.7 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).