corder
French, verb/kɔʁ.de/
corder is spelled C-O-R-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corder is a French verb meaning “to rope up, rope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en corde”.
What does corder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rope up, rope
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en corde. 2. Affermir l’enveloppe d’un ballot, les planches d’une caisse, etc., en les entourant d’une corde fortement serrée. 3. Mesurer (du bois abattu) à la corde. 4. Empiler du bois en cordes, c'est-à-dire ranger des bûches de longueur identique jusqu'à une certaine hauteur et sur une certaine longueur.
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 corder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cordant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cordé participle past
- corde first-person indicative present
- cordes indicative present second-person
- cordons first-person indicative plural
- cordez indicative plural present
- cordent indicative plural present
- cordais first-person imperfect indicative
- cordait imperfect indicative singular
- cordions first-person imperfect indicative
- cordiez imperfect indicative plural
- cordaient imperfect indicative plural
- cordai first-person historic indicative
- cordas historic indicative past
- corda historic indicative past
- cordâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corder?
- /kɔʁ.de/
- \kɔʁ.de\
- [kɔʁ.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is corder in French?
corder appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).