crier
French, verb/kʁi.je/
crier is spelled C-R-I-E-R (5 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crier is a French verb meaning “to cry out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter un ou plusieurs cris”.
What does crier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cry out
- 2
to shout
- 3
to creak
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter un ou plusieurs cris. 2. Élever très haut la voix dans la conversation, dans une discussion, dans un blâme, dans une gronderie, etc. 3. Forcer trop sa voix en chantant. 4. Grincer ; produire un bruit aigre, en se frottant rudement contre d’autres ou en se cassant, en parlant des choses.
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 crier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- criant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crié participle past
- crie first-person indicative present
- cries indicative present second-person
- crions first-person indicative plural
- criez indicative plural present
- crient indicative plural present
- criais first-person imperfect indicative
- criait imperfect indicative singular
- criions first-person imperfect indicative
- criiez imperfect indicative plural
- criaient imperfect indicative plural
- criai first-person historic indicative
- crias historic indicative past
- cria historic indicative past
- criâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crier?
- /kʁi.je/
- \kʁi.je\
- [kʁi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crier in French?
crier appears 17 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).