calligraphier
French, verb/ka.li.ɡʁa.fje/
calligraphier is spelled C-A-L-L-I-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calligraphier is a French verb meaning “to calligraph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire des lettres, ou des symboles, de manière esthétique”.
What does calligraphier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calligraph
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Écrire des lettres, ou des symboles, de manière esthétique.
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 calligraphier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- calligraphiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- calligraphié participle past
- calligraphie first-person indicative present
- calligraphies indicative present second-person
- calligraphions first-person indicative plural
- calligraphiez indicative plural present
- calligraphient indicative plural present
- calligraphiais first-person imperfect indicative
- calligraphiait imperfect indicative singular
- calligraphiions first-person imperfect indicative
- calligraphiiez imperfect indicative plural
- calligraphiaient imperfect indicative plural
- calligraphiai first-person historic indicative
- calligraphias historic indicative past
- calligraphia historic indicative past
- calligraphiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calligraphier?
- /ka.li.ɡʁa.fje/
- \ka.li.ɡʁa.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is calligraphier in French?
calligraphier appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).