stériliser
French, verb/ste.ʁi.li.ze/
stériliser is spelled S-T-É-R-I-L-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stériliser is a French verb meaning “to sterilize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper de stérilité, rendre stérile”.
What does stériliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sterilize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper de stérilité, rendre stérile. 2. Détruire par divers procédés d’antisepsie les ferments qui pourraient infecter un instrument, une blessure, une substance. 3. Devenir stérile, improductif.
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 stériliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- stérilisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- stérilisé participle past
- stérilise first-person indicative present
- stérilises indicative present second-person
- stérilisons first-person indicative plural
- stérilisez indicative plural present
- stérilisent indicative plural present
- stérilisais first-person imperfect indicative
- stérilisait imperfect indicative singular
- stérilisions first-person imperfect indicative
- stérilisiez imperfect indicative plural
- stérilisaient imperfect indicative plural
- stérilisai first-person historic indicative
- stérilisas historic indicative past
- stérilisa historic indicative past
- stérilisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stériliser?
- /ste.ʁi.li.ze/
- \ste.ʁi.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to stériliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stériliser in French?
stériliser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).