substantivation
French, noun/syp.stɑ̃.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
substantivation is spelled S-U-B-S-T-A-N-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N (15 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Substantivation is a French feminine noun meaning “substantivization, nominalization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dérivation transformant un mot en substantif”.
What does substantivation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesubstantivization, nominalization
La substantivation, très vivante en ancien français, ne se produit plus guère aujourd’hui que dans le discours philosophique.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dérivation transformant un mot en substantif.
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 substantivation
- substantivations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce substantivation?
- /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
- \syp.stɑ̃.ti.va.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to substantivation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is substantivation in French?
substantivation appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).