celer
French, verb/sə.le/
celer is spelled C-E-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Celer is a French verb meaning “to conceal, hide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cacher, tenir secret, ne pas révéler”.
What does celer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conceal, hide
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cacher, tenir secret, ne pas révéler.
verb: 1. Variante de celer, taire, garder secret.
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 celer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- celant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- celé participle past
- cèle first-person indicative present
- cèles indicative present second-person
- celons first-person indicative plural
- celez indicative plural present
- cèlent indicative plural present
- celais first-person imperfect indicative
- celait imperfect indicative singular
- celions first-person imperfect indicative
- celiez imperfect indicative plural
- celaient imperfect indicative plural
- celai first-person historic indicative
- celas historic indicative past
- cela historic indicative past
- celâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce celer?
- /sə.le/
- \sə.le\
- \se.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to celer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is celer in French?
celer appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).