attiser
French, verb/a.ti.ze/
attiser is spelled A-T-T-I-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attiser is a French verb meaning “to stir up (fire); to rekindle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ranimer le feu en approchant les tisons l’un de l’autre pour les faire mieux brûler”.
What does attiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stir up (fire); to rekindle
- 2
to fan the flames of, to stir up (emotion etc.); to inflame
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ranimer le feu en approchant les tisons l’un de l’autre pour les faire mieux brûler. 2. Exciter, animer, envenimer, accentuer quelque chose de mal.
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 attiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attisé participle past
- attise first-person indicative present
- attises indicative present second-person
- attisons first-person indicative plural
- attisez indicative plural present
- attisent indicative plural present
- attisais first-person imperfect indicative
- attisait imperfect indicative singular
- attisions first-person imperfect indicative
- attisiez imperfect indicative plural
- attisaient imperfect indicative plural
- attisai first-person historic indicative
- attisas historic indicative past
- attisa historic indicative past
- attisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attiser?
- /a.ti.ze/
- \a.ti.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 attiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attiser in French?
attiser appears 1.3 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).