confisquer
French, verb/kɔ̃.fis.ke/
confisquer is spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-Q-U-E-R (10 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confisquer is a French verb meaning “to confiscate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adjuger au fisc pour cause de crime ou de contravention aux lois, aux ordonnances”.
What does confisquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confiscate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Adjuger au fisc pour cause de crime ou de contravention aux lois, aux ordonnances. 2. Saisir des biens à un particulier, pour les adjuger à un autre. 3. Saisir, par acte d'autorité, ce qui appartient à autrui. 4. Accaparer quelqu’un ; se rendre maître de sa personne, au point de lui ôter sa liberté.
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 confisquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- confisquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- confisqué participle past
- confisque first-person indicative present
- confisques indicative present second-person
- confisquons first-person indicative plural
- confisquez indicative plural present
- confisquent indicative plural present
- confisquais first-person imperfect indicative
- confisquait imperfect indicative singular
- confisquions first-person imperfect indicative
- confisquiez imperfect indicative plural
- confisquaient imperfect indicative plural
- confisquai first-person historic indicative
- confisquas historic indicative past
- confisqua historic indicative past
- confisquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confisquer?
- /kɔ̃.fis.ke/
- \kɔ̃.fis.ke\
- [kɔ̃.fis.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confisquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confisquer in French?
confisquer appears 1.2 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).