scandaliser
\skɑ̃.da.li.ze\
The verdict
“scandaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #57,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en danger de chute, de péché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scandaliser · scandaliser · French
scandaliser · rank #57,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,585
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scandé
Nearest frequency peer: scandé (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « scandaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salvatrice
salvatrice
42,418 corpus weight
- scandaliser
scandaliser
42,416 corpus weight
- scandé
scandé
42,415 corpus weight
- SDI
SDI
42,414 corpus weight
- semblais
semblais
42,413 corpus weight
- semoun
semoun
42,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scandaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scandaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skɑ̃.da.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scandaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scandaliser is uncommon French at frequency #57,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \skɑ̃.da.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
scandaliser has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scandaliser, spelled S-C-A-N-D-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en danger de chute, de péché.
- 2Choquer par l’éclat du mauvais exemple ; causer, provoquer du scandale.
- 3S’indigner, se choquer, s’offenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scandaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Scandaliser un enfant par ses propos, par son exemple.
Votre vie scandalise tout le monde.
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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