aiguiser
French, verb/ɛ.ɡɥi.ze/
aiguiser is spelled A-I-G-U-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aiguiser is a French verb meaning “to sharpen (of a point, to make sharper)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre aigu”.
What does aiguiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sharpen (of a point, to make sharper)
- 2
to hone (e.g. a skill)
- 3
to whet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre aigu. 2. Augmenter de manière à rendre plus efficace, voire plus menaçant. 3. Rendre plus vif, plus concentré.
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 aiguiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aiguisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aiguisé participle past
- aiguise first-person indicative present
- aiguises indicative present second-person
- aiguisons first-person indicative plural
- aiguisez indicative plural present
- aiguisent indicative plural present
- aiguisais first-person imperfect indicative
- avoir aiguisé infinitive past
- en aiguisant gerund present
- en ayant aiguisé gerund past
- j’aiguise indicative present
- tu aiguises indicative present
- il/elle/on aiguise indicative present
- nous aiguisons indicative present
- vous aiguisez indicative present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aiguiser?
- /ɛ.ɡɥi.ze/
- /e.ɡɥi.ze/
- /ɛ.ɡi.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 aiguiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aiguiser in French?
aiguiser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).