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chier

French, verb/ʃje/

chier is spelled C-H-I-E-R (5 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written French, the 1,953rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chier is a French verb meaning “to shit, defecate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déféquer”.

What does chier mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    vulgarto shit, defecate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Déféquer. 2. Conchier, mépriser. 3. (Construit avec faire) Emmerder, embêter, ennuyer. 4. Faire suer, en baver.

noun: 1. Nom local donné aux rivières de pierres volcaniques.

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 chier

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • chiant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • chié participle past
  • chie first-person indicative present
  • chies indicative present second-person
  • chions first-person indicative plural
  • chiez indicative plural present
  • chient indicative plural present
  • chiais first-person imperfect indicative
  • chiait imperfect indicative singular
  • chiions first-person imperfect indicative
  • chiiez imperfect indicative plural
  • chiaient imperfect indicative plural
  • chiai first-person historic indicative
  • chias historic indicative past
  • chia historic indicative past
  • chiâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chier?

  • /ʃje/
  • /ʃi.e/
  • \ʃje\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to chier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is chier in French?

chier appears 43 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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