creuser
French, verb/kʁø.ze/
creuser is spelled C-R-E-U-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Creuser is a French verb meaning “to dig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un trou, un orifice, un canal, etc”.
What does creuser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig
- 2
to hollow out
- 3
to grow hollow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un trou, un orifice, un canal, etc. 2. Faire un creux, un défaut de planéité. 3. Approfondir, faire une recherche plus précise sur un sujet particulier après une première approche. 4. Évider.
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 creuser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- creusant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- creusé participle past
- creuse first-person indicative present
- creuses indicative present second-person
- creusons first-person indicative plural
- creusez indicative plural present
- creusent indicative plural present
- creusais first-person imperfect indicative
- creusait imperfect indicative singular
- creusions first-person imperfect indicative
- creusiez imperfect indicative plural
- creusaient imperfect indicative plural
- creusai first-person historic indicative
- creusas historic indicative past
- creusa historic indicative past
- creusâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce creuser?
- /kʁø.ze/
- \kʁø.ze\
- [kʁø.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to creuser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is creuser in French?
creuser appears 8.3 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).