cisailles
French, noun
cisailles is spelled C-I-S-A-I-L-L-E-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cisailles is a French feminine noun meaning “shears, clippers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cisailler. With an accent, cisaillés is a different word: “masculine plural of cisaillé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gros ciseaux qui servent à couper des plaques ou des feuilles de métal”.
What does cisailles mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshears, clippers
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cisailler
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of cisaillé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gros ciseaux qui servent à couper des plaques ou des feuilles de 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.
English words that translate to cisailles
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cisailles in French?
cisailles appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).