scléroser
French, verb/skle.ʁo.ze/
scléroser is spelled S-C-L-É-R-O-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scléroser is a French verb meaning “to harden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Créer une sorte d’endurcissement morbide des tissus”.
What does scléroser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harden
- 2
to harden, to sclerose, to become sclerosed
- 3
to paralyse
- 4
to ossify, to become fossilized, to grind to a halt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Créer une sorte d’endurcissement morbide des tissus. 2. Limiter le développement telle une maladie.
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 scléroser
- avoir sclérosé infinitive past
- en sclérosant gerund present
- en ayant sclérosé gerund past
- sclérosant participle present
- sclérosé participle past
- je sclérose indicative present
- tu scléroses indicative present
- il/elle/on sclérose indicative present
- nous sclérosons indicative present
- vous sclérosez indicative present
- ils/elles sclérosent indicative present
- j’ai sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont sclérosé indicative past multiword-construction
- je sclérosais indicative imperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scléroser?
- /skle.ʁo.ze/
- \skle.ʁɔ.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is scléroser in French?
scléroser appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).