conspuer
French, verb/kɔ̃s.pɥe/
conspuer is spelled C-O-N-S-P-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conspuer is a French verb meaning “to boo, to shout down; to vigorously express disapproval, scorn, or contempt of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manifester à quelqu’un son mécontentement, voire son mépris”.
What does conspuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to boo, to shout down; to vigorously express disapproval, scorn, or contempt of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manifester à quelqu’un son mécontentement, voire son mépris.
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 conspuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- conspuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- conspué participle past
- conspue first-person indicative present
- conspues indicative present second-person
- conspuons first-person indicative plural
- conspuez indicative plural present
- conspuent indicative plural present
- conspuais first-person imperfect indicative
- conspuait imperfect indicative singular
- conspuions first-person imperfect indicative
- conspuiez imperfect indicative plural
- conspuaient imperfect indicative plural
- conspuai first-person historic indicative
- conspuas historic indicative past
- conspua historic indicative past
- conspuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce conspuer?
- /kɔ̃s.pɥe/
- \kɔ̃s.pɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is conspuer in French?
conspuer appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).