traumatiser
\tʁo.ma.ti.ze\
The verdict
“traumatiser” is uncommon French (frequency #51,188 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,188
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provoquer un traumatisme physique chez un être vivant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traumatiser · traumatiser · French
traumatiser · rank #51,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,188
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transpercé
Nearest frequency peer: transpercé (-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 « traumatiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- traiteurs
traiteurs
48,817 corpus weight
- transfronta…
transfrontaliers
48,816 corpus weight
- transpercé
transpercé
48,814 corpus weight
- traumatiser
traumatiser
48,813 corpus weight
- trichent
trichent
48,811 corpus weight
- triplement
triplement
48,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traumatiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traumatiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁo.ma.ti.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « traumatiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
traumatiser is uncommon French at frequency #51,188 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁo.ma.ti.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for traumatiser, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is traumatiser, spelled T-R-A-U-M-A-T-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Provoquer un traumatisme physique chez un être vivant.
- 2Provoquer un traumatisme moral chez quelqu’un.
- 3Marquer durablement et négativement la mémoire en parlant de quelque chose qui heurte la sensibilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how traumatiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les victimes seront alors le plus souvent condamnées à se taire et à rester seules avec leur souffrance, par crainte de traumatiser leur entourage avec le récit des violences qu’elles ont subies, pour ne pas courir le risque de ne pas être entendues, ni crues, voire d’être maltraitées par ceux-là mêmes censés les accompagner et les soigner.
Ce film les as traumatisées.
This word in other languages
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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