clavarder
French, verb/kla.vaʁ.de/
clavarder is spelled C-L-A-V-A-R-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clavarder is a French verb meaning “to chat by typing on a keyboard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Converser, communiquer textuellement en temps réel sur Internet”.
What does clavarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chat by typing on a keyboard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Converser, communiquer textuellement en temps réel sur Internet.
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 clavarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clavardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clavardé participle past
- clavarde first-person indicative present
- clavardes indicative present second-person
- clavardons first-person indicative plural
- clavardez indicative plural present
- clavardent indicative plural present
- clavardais first-person imperfect indicative
- clavardait imperfect indicative singular
- clavardions first-person imperfect indicative
- clavardiez imperfect indicative plural
- clavardaient imperfect indicative plural
- clavardai first-person historic indicative
- clavardas historic indicative past
- clavarda historic indicative past
- clavardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clavarder?
- /kla.vaʁ.de/
- \kla.vaʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clavarder in French?
clavarder appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).