châtier
French, verb/ʃa.tje/
châtier is spelled C-H-Â-T-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Châtier is a French verb meaning “to chastise, punish, castigate, smite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Infliger une peine destinée à corriger”.
What does châtier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chastise, punish, castigate, smite
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Infliger une peine destinée à corriger. 2. Donner, au cheval, des coups de cravache ou d’éperon, lorsqu’il refuse de faire ce qu’on exige de lui. 3. Corriger la faute elle-même qu’on veut reprendre. 4. Polir, rendre plus pur, plus correct, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
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 châtier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- châtiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- châtié participle past
- châtie first-person indicative present
- châties indicative present second-person
- châtions first-person indicative plural
- châtiez indicative plural present
- châtient indicative plural present
- châtiais first-person imperfect indicative
- châtiait imperfect indicative singular
- châtiions first-person imperfect indicative
- châtiiez imperfect indicative plural
- châtiaient imperfect indicative plural
- châtiai first-person historic indicative
- châtias historic indicative past
- châtia historic indicative past
- châtiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce châtier?
- /ʃa.tje/
- /ʃɑ.tje/
- \ʃɑ.tje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to châtier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is châtier in French?
châtier appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).