tétaniser
French, verb\te.ta.ni.ze\
tétaniser is spelled T-É-T-A-N-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tétaniser is a French verb meaning “to tetanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre tétanique”.
What does tétaniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tetanize
- 2
to petrify, to scare stiff
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre tétanique. 2. Mettre dans un état de tétanie. 3. Être mis en incapacité, en proie à une affliction particulière.
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 tétaniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tétanisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tétanisé participle past
- tétanise first-person indicative present
- tétanises indicative present second-person
- tétanisons first-person indicative plural
- tétanisez indicative plural present
- tétanisent indicative plural present
- tétanisais first-person imperfect indicative
- tétanisait imperfect indicative singular
- tétanisions first-person imperfect indicative
- tétanisiez imperfect indicative plural
- tétanisaient imperfect indicative plural
- tétanisai first-person historic indicative
- tétanisas historic indicative past
- tétanisa historic indicative past
- tétanisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tétaniser?
- \te.ta.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tétaniser in French?
tétaniser appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).