créer
French, verb/kʁe.e/
créer is spelled C-R-É-E-R (5 letters) and appears 93 times per million words in written French, the 902nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Créer is a French verb meaning “to create” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer quelque chose du néant, faire de rien quelque chose”.
What does créer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to create
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer quelque chose du néant, faire de rien quelque chose. 2. Donner l’existence à quelque chose qui n’existait pas encore, éventuellement à partir d'autres éléments. 3. Fonder, instituer, élire. 4. Produire ; faire naître ; susciter.
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 créer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- créant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- créé participle past
- crée first-person indicative present
- crées indicative present second-person
- créons first-person indicative plural
- créez indicative plural present
- créent indicative plural present
- créais first-person imperfect indicative
- créait imperfect indicative singular
- créions first-person imperfect indicative
- créiez imperfect indicative plural
- créaient imperfect indicative plural
- créai first-person historic indicative
- créas historic indicative past
- créa historic indicative past
- créâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce créer?
- /kʁe.e/
- \kʁe.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to créer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is créer in French?
créer appears 93 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).