accuser
French, verb/a.ky.ze/
accuser is spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accuser is a French verb meaning “to accuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déférer à la justice quelqu’un comme coupable d’un délit, d’un crime”.
What does accuser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accuse
- 2
to find fault with
- 3
to show; to reveal
- 4
to acknowledge receipt of something
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déférer à la justice quelqu’un comme coupable d’un délit, d’un crime. 2. Poursuivre, en vertu d’un arrêt de la chambre des mises en accusation, une personne devant la Cour d’assises pour la faire déclarer coupable du crime qu’on lui impute et pour obtenir sa condamnation. 3. Présenter quelqu’un comme coupable de quelque faute ou de quelque défaut. 4. Indiquer ; présenter.
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 accuser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- accusant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- accusé participle past
- accuse first-person indicative present
- accuses indicative present second-person
- accusons first-person indicative plural
- accusez indicative plural present
- accusent indicative plural present
- accusais first-person imperfect indicative
- accusait imperfect indicative singular
- accusions first-person imperfect indicative
- accusiez imperfect indicative plural
- accusaient imperfect indicative plural
- accusai first-person historic indicative
- accusas historic indicative past
- accusa historic indicative past
- accusâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accuser?
- /a.ky.ze/
- \a.ky.ze\
- [a.ky.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accuser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accuser in French?
accuser appears 7.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).