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ciseau

French, noun/si.zo/

ciseau is spelled C-I-S-E-A-U (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ciseau is a French masculine noun meaning “chisel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lame, pièce métallique aiguisée à son extrémité, servant à couper ou à travailler le bois, le métal, etc”.

What does ciseau mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinechisel

  2. 2

    masculinesculpture

  3. 3

    colloquialmasculinescissors

  4. 4

    masculinescissor kick

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Lame, pièce métallique aiguisée à son extrémité, servant à couper ou à travailler le bois, le métal, etc. 2. Autres outils à la fonction ou à la forme similaires. 3. Manière de travailler d’un sculpteur. 4. Insecte de l’ordre des hémiptères, famille des gerridés ou des hydrométridés, capables de se déplacer à la surface de l’eau, les pattes antérieures ne servant qu’à la prédation.

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 ciseau

  • ciseaux plural

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

How do you pronounce ciseau?

  • /si.zo/
  • \si.zo\

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

English words that translate to ciseau

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

How common is ciseau in French?

ciseau appears 1.1 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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