crépir
French, verb/kʁe.piʁ/
crépir is spelled C-R-É-P-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crépir is a French verb meaning “to roughcast, render” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enduire, badigeonner de crépi”.
What does crépir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to roughcast, render
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enduire, badigeonner de crépi. 2. Faire venir le grain au cuir. 3. Faire bouillir le crin dans l’eau pour le friser
verb: 1. Ancienne orthographe du verbe crépir.
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 crépir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crépissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crépi participle past
- crépis first-person indicative present
- crépit indicative present singular
- crépissons first-person indicative plural
- crépissez indicative plural present
- crépissent indicative plural present
- crépissais first-person imperfect indicative
- crépissait imperfect indicative singular
- crépissions first-person imperfect indicative
- crépissiez imperfect indicative plural
- crépissaient imperfect indicative plural
- crépîmes first-person historic indicative
- crépîtes historic indicative past
- crépirent historic indicative past
- crépirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crépir?
- /kʁe.piʁ/
- \kʁe.piʁ\
- [kʁe.piʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crépir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crépir in French?
crépir appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).