clipper
French, noun/kli.pœʁ/
clipper is spelled C-L-I-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clipper is a French masculine noun meaning “heavy sailing ship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Navire à voiles de gros tonnage”.
What does clipper mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheavy sailing ship
- 2
masculinetransatlantic airplane
verb
- 1
to clip
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer par un clip. 2. Mousquetonner, ancrer une corde dans le mousqueton d'une dégaine pour permettre l'assurage d'un grimpeur. 3. Couper une aile de la reine, pour éviter qu’elle s’en aille. 4. Tourner un clip vidéo afin de promouvoir une chanson.
noun: 1. Navire à voiles de gros tonnage. 2. Avion transatlantique.
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 clipper
- clippers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clippant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clippé participle past
- clippe first-person indicative present
- clippes indicative present second-person
- clippons first-person indicative plural
- clippez indicative plural present
- clippent indicative plural present
- clippais first-person imperfect indicative
- clippait imperfect indicative singular
- clippions first-person imperfect indicative
- clippiez imperfect indicative plural
- clippaient imperfect indicative plural
- clippai first-person historic indicative
- clippas historic indicative past
- clippa historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clipper?
- /kli.pœʁ/
- /kli.pe/
- \kli.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clipper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clipper in French?
clipper appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).