conjurer
French, verb/kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/
conjurer is spelled C-O-N-J-U-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conjurer is a French verb meaning “to beseech, to beg” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prier instamment”.
What does conjurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beseech, to beg
Je vous en conjure !
- 2
to ward off
- 3
to conspire, to plot, to conjure
- 4
to conjure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prier instamment. 2. Exorciser, se servir de certaines prières, de certaines formules pour chasser les démons, pour écarter la peste, l’orage, etc. 3. Détourner par prudence, par adresse, un malheur dont on est menacé. 4. Compenser, annuler.
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 conjurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- conjurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- conjuré participle past
- conjure first-person indicative present
- conjures indicative present second-person
- conjurons first-person indicative plural
- conjurez indicative plural present
- conjurent indicative plural present
- conjurais first-person imperfect indicative
- conjurait imperfect indicative singular
- conjurions first-person imperfect indicative
- conjuriez imperfect indicative plural
- conjuraient imperfect indicative plural
- conjurai first-person historic indicative
- conjuras historic indicative past
- conjura historic indicative past
- conjurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce conjurer?
- /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/
- \kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is conjurer in French?
conjurer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).