ciseler
French, verb/siz.le/
ciseler is spelled C-I-S-E-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ciseler is a French verb meaning “to chisel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler avec le ciseau, le ciselet des ouvrages de bronze, d’or, d’argent, etc”.
What does ciseler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chisel
- 2
to chop finely
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler avec le ciseau, le ciselet des ouvrages de bronze, d’or, d’argent, etc. 2. Couper avec des ciseaux. 3. Éliminer à l’aide d’un ciseau ou à la main les grains abîmés ou trop petits d’une grappe de raisin, pour favoriser le développement ou la conservation des autres. 4. Fignoler, soigner les détails.
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 ciseler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ciselant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ciselé participle past
- cisèle first-person indicative present
- cisèles indicative present second-person
- ciselons first-person indicative plural
- ciselez indicative plural present
- cisèlent indicative plural present
- ciselais first-person imperfect indicative
- ciselait imperfect indicative singular
- ciselions first-person imperfect indicative
- ciseliez imperfect indicative plural
- ciselaient imperfect indicative plural
- ciselai first-person historic indicative
- ciselas historic indicative past
- cisela historic indicative past
- ciselâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ciseler?
- /siz.le/
- \si.zə.le\
- [si.zə.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ciseler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ciseler in French?
ciseler appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).