confier
French, verb/kɔ̃.fje/
confier is spelled C-O-N-F-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confier is a French verb meaning “to confide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Commettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose à la probité, au soin, à l’habileté de quelqu’un”.
What does confier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confide
Il confie son secret à son ami.
- 2
to entrust
Il lui confie cette tâche.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Commettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose à la probité, au soin, à l’habileté de quelqu’un. 2. Dire en confidence. 3. Se dit, dans les deux sens, en parlant des choses physiques ou morales, considérées comme dépositaires, agents ou confidents. 4. S’en remettre à quelqu’un de ce à quoi on s’intéresse.
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 confier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- confiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- confié participle past
- confie first-person indicative present
- confies indicative present second-person
- confions first-person indicative plural
- confiez indicative plural present
- confient indicative plural present
- confiais first-person imperfect indicative
- confiait imperfect indicative singular
- confiions first-person imperfect indicative
- confiiez imperfect indicative plural
- confiaient imperfect indicative plural
- confiai first-person historic indicative
- confias historic indicative past
- confia historic indicative past
- confiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confier?
- /kɔ̃.fje/
- \kɔ̃.fje\
- [kɔ̃.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confier in French?
confier appears 12 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).