chiper
French, verb/ʃi.pe/
chiper is spelled C-H-I-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 66,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiper is a French verb meaning “to pinch, steal, filch, rob” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dérober un objet de peu de valeur. Prendre ce qui est à autrui”.
What does chiper mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto pinch, steal, filch, rob
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dérober un objet de peu de valeur. Prendre ce qui est à autrui. 2. Faire tomber amoureux ; énamourer. 3. Donner le chipage aux peaux.
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 chiper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chipant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chipé participle past
- chipe first-person indicative present
- chipes indicative present second-person
- chipons first-person indicative plural
- chipez indicative plural present
- chipent indicative plural present
- chipais first-person imperfect indicative
- chipait imperfect indicative singular
- chipions first-person imperfect indicative
- chipiez imperfect indicative plural
- chipaient imperfect indicative plural
- chipai first-person historic indicative
- chipas historic indicative past
- chipa historic indicative past
- chipâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiper?
- /ʃi.pe/
- \ʃi.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chiper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiper in French?
chiper appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).