chiffrer
French, verb/ʃi.fʁe/
chiffrer is spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,887th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiffrer is a French verb meaning “to number (to add a number to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se servir des chiffres pour calculer”.
What does chiffrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to number (to add a number to)
- 2
to add up (accumulate)
- 3
to cipher, to encipher, to encrypt (add a cipher to, for protection)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se servir des chiffres pour calculer. 2. Aller haut en prix ou en valeur, augmenter.
verb: 1. Numéroter, distinguer par des chiffres. 2. Évaluer en chiffres, dénombrer. 3. Écrire en chiffre, procédé utilisé en cryptographie permettant de protéger un document en le rendant incompréhensible à toute personne ne possédant pas la clé, ceci étant réalisé par des calculs. Ces calculs peuvent être effectués à l’aide de divers outils, mécaniques, électroniques ou informatiques. 4. Écrire un accord sous une forme symbolique.
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 chiffrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chiffrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chiffré participle past
- chiffre first-person indicative present
- chiffres indicative present second-person
- chiffrons first-person indicative plural
- chiffrez indicative plural present
- chiffrent indicative plural present
- chiffrais first-person imperfect indicative
- chiffrait imperfect indicative singular
- chiffrions first-person imperfect indicative
- chiffriez imperfect indicative plural
- chiffraient imperfect indicative plural
- chiffrai first-person historic indicative
- chiffras historic indicative past
- chiffra historic indicative past
- chiffrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiffrer?
- /ʃi.fʁe/
- \ʃi.fʁe\
- [ʃi.fʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chiffrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiffrer in French?
chiffrer appears 1.5 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).