cisailler
French, verb/si.za.je/
cisailler is spelled C-I-S-A-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cisailler is a French verb meaning “to clip, shear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper, découper avec une ou des cisailles”.
What does cisailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clip, shear
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couper, découper avec une ou des cisailles. 2. Couper avec les cisailles les pièces fausses ou légères, afin de les rendre inutilisables.
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 cisailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cisaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cisaillé participle past
- cisaille first-person indicative present
- cisailles indicative present second-person
- cisaillons first-person indicative plural
- cisaillez indicative plural present
- cisaillent indicative plural present
- cisaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- cisaillait imperfect indicative singular
- cisaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- cisailliez imperfect indicative plural
- cisaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- cisaillai first-person historic indicative
- cisaillas historic indicative past
- cisailla historic indicative past
- cisaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cisailler?
- /si.za.je/
- /si.zɑ.je/
- \si.zɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cisailler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cisailler in French?
cisailler appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).