censer
French, verb/sɑ̃.se/
censer is spelled C-E-N-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Censer is a French verb meaning “synonym of estimer /penser” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Penser, estimer”.
What does censer mean in English?
verb
- 1
raresynonym of estimer /penser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Penser, estimer.
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 censer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- censant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- censé participle past
- cense first-person indicative present
- censes indicative present second-person
- censons first-person indicative plural
- censez indicative plural present
- censent indicative plural present
- censais first-person imperfect indicative
- censait imperfect indicative singular
- censions first-person imperfect indicative
- censiez imperfect indicative plural
- censaient imperfect indicative plural
- censai first-person historic indicative
- censas historic indicative past
- censa historic indicative past
- censâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce censer?
- /sɑ̃.se/
- \sɑ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is censer in French?
censer appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).