vaporiser
\va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\
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
- vagins
vagins
42,997 corpus weight
- vaporisation
vaporisation
42,994 corpus weight
- vaporiser
vaporiser
42,993 corpus weight
- verbalisati…
verbalisation
42,992 corpus weight
- veule
veule
42,991 corpus weight
- victuailles
victuailles
42,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaporiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaporiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.pɔ.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaporiser » en français
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
- 1Faire passer une substance de l’état liquide à l’état gazeux.
- 2Disperser un liquide en gouttelettes très fines contre ou sur quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaporiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, si l’eau est nécessaire pour produire la vapeur, le charbon est nécessaire pour vaporiser l’eau.
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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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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