stérilisé
\ste.ʁi.li.ze\
The verdict
“stérilisé” is uncommon French (frequency #54,929 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,929
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de stériliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sterilise · stérilisé · French
stérilisé · rank #54,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,929
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suggérés
Nearest frequency peer: suggérés (+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 « stérilisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stiller
stiller
45,076 corpus weight
- stoppeur
stoppeur
45,075 corpus weight
- stratosphère
stratosphère
45,074 corpus weight
- stérilisé
stérilisé
45,072 corpus weight
- suggérés
suggérés
45,071 corpus weight
- Sulla
Sulla
45,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stérilisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stérilisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ste.ʁi.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stérilisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stérilisé is uncommon French at frequency #54,929 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ste.ʁi.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de stériliser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stérilisé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stérilisé, spelled S-T-É-R-I-L-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de stériliser.
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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