clairer
French, verb/klɛ.ʁe/
clairer is spelled C-L-A-I-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clairer is a French verb meaning “to enlighten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Laver”.
What does clairer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enlighten
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Laver. 2. Éclairer, être allumé.
verb: 1. Déblayer, débarrasser, défricher. 2. Innocenter.
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 clairer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clairant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clairé participle past
- claire first-person indicative present
- claires indicative present second-person
- clairons first-person indicative plural
- clairez indicative plural present
- clairent indicative plural present
- clairais first-person imperfect indicative
- clairait imperfect indicative singular
- clairions first-person imperfect indicative
- clairiez imperfect indicative plural
- clairaient imperfect indicative plural
- clairai first-person historic indicative
- clairas historic indicative past
- claira historic indicative past
- clairâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clairer?
- /klɛ.ʁe/
- /kle.ʁe/
- \kle.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clairer in French?
clairer appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).