vaporiser

\va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\

/\va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“vaporiser” is uncommon French (frequency #57,008 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,008
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire passer une substance de l’état liquide à l’état gazeux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vaporiser · vaporiser · French

vaporiser · rank #57,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,008
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vaporisation

Nearest frequency peer: vaporisation (-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 « vaporiser »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaporiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vaporiser
PropertyValue
Headwordvaporiser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\
Letters9
Frequency rank#57,008
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « vaporiser » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.vaporisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « vaporisation » (#57,007), « verbalisation » (#57,009), « veule » (#57,010). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vaporiser » est au #57,008. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vaporiser is uncommon French at frequency #57,008 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for vaporiser in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vaporiser, spelled V-A-P-O-R-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire passer une substance de l’état liquide à l’état gazeux.
  2. 2
    Disperser un liquide en gouttelettes très fines contre ou sur quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vaporiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais, si l’eau est nécessaire pour produire la vapeur, le charbon est nécessaire pour vaporiser l’eau.
  2. Je passe un peu de khôl sur le bord supérieur de mes yeux, du rouge mat sur mes lèvres et je me vaporise de parfum Elie Saab jusqu'à la teucha.

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Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vaporiser"?
"vaporiser" is spelled V-A-P-O-R-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\.
What does "vaporiser" mean?
As a verb, "vaporiser" means: Faire passer une substance de l’état liquide à l’état gazeux.
How do you pronounce "vaporiser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vaporiser" is \va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vaporiser" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vaporiser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list