chemiser
French, verb/ʃə.mi.ze/
chemiser is spelled C-H-E-M-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chemiser is a French verb meaning “to line (cover the inside surface of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tapisser une plaque de cuisson ou les parois d’un moule, à l’aide d’un papier cuisson ou d’une couche de…”.
What does chemiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to line (cover the inside surface of)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tapisser une plaque de cuisson ou les parois d’un moule, à l’aide d’un papier cuisson ou d’une couche de préparation (caramel, glace, gelée, meringue, biscuits, laitue, feuille de chou, crêpes, etc.) afin de démouler facilement la préparation ou lui donner une belle présentation ou une certaine tenue. 2. Garnir la surface interne d'une excavation. 3. Recouvrir, d'or, d'argent, de platine ou de tout autre métal précieux un objet fait d'un autre métal.
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 chemiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chemisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chemisé participle past
- chemise first-person indicative present
- chemises indicative present second-person
- chemisons first-person indicative plural
- chemisez indicative plural present
- chemisent indicative plural present
- chemisais first-person imperfect indicative
- chemisait imperfect indicative singular
- chemisions first-person imperfect indicative
- chemisiez imperfect indicative plural
- chemisaient imperfect indicative plural
- chemisai first-person historic indicative
- chemisas historic indicative past
- chemisa historic indicative past
- chemisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chemiser?
- /ʃə.mi.ze/
- \ʃə.mi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chemiser in French?
chemiser appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).