sonoriser
French, verb/sɔ.nɔ.ʁi.ze/
sonoriser is spelled S-O-N-O-R-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonoriser is a French verb meaning “to voice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre sonore une lettre sourde”.
What does sonoriser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to voice
- 2
to install a sound system
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre sonore une lettre sourde. 2. Assurer l’installation ou l’utilisation d’équipements permettant de diffuser une musique ou une ambiance musicale.
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 sonoriser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sonorisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sonorisé participle past
- sonorise first-person indicative present
- sonorises indicative present second-person
- sonorisons first-person indicative plural
- sonorisez indicative plural present
- sonorisent indicative plural present
- sonorisais first-person imperfect indicative
- sonorisait imperfect indicative singular
- sonorisions first-person imperfect indicative
- sonorisiez imperfect indicative plural
- sonorisaient imperfect indicative plural
- sonorisai first-person historic indicative
- sonorisas historic indicative past
- sonorisa historic indicative past
- sonorisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sonoriser?
- /sɔ.nɔ.ʁi.ze/
- \sɔ.nɔ.ʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sonoriser in French?
sonoriser appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).