caviarder
French, verb/ka.vjaʁ.de/
caviarder is spelled C-A-V-I-A-R-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caviarder is a French verb meaning “to redact (to censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recouvrir d’un enduit noir, de façon à cacher aux yeux du lecteur un passage d’un livre ou d’un journal qui…”.
What does caviarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto redact (to censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recouvrir d’un enduit noir, de façon à cacher aux yeux du lecteur un passage d’un livre ou d’un journal qui déplaît à la censure. 2. Expurger un passage d’une publication en le supprimant ; censurer.
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 caviarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- caviardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caviardé participle past
- caviarde first-person indicative present
- caviardes indicative present second-person
- caviardons first-person indicative plural
- caviardez indicative plural present
- caviardent indicative plural present
- caviardais first-person imperfect indicative
- caviardait imperfect indicative singular
- caviardions first-person imperfect indicative
- caviardiez imperfect indicative plural
- caviardaient imperfect indicative plural
- caviardai first-person historic indicative
- caviardas historic indicative past
- caviarda historic indicative past
- caviardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caviarder?
- /ka.vjaʁ.de/
- \ka.vjaʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caviarder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caviarder in French?
caviarder appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).