crisper
French, verb/kʁis.pe/
crisper is spelled C-R-I-S-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crisper is a French verb meaning “to tense, to tense up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contracter par une crispation, des crispations”.
What does crisper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tense, to tense up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Contracter par une crispation, des crispations. 2. Resserrer, racornir. 3. Impatienter, agacer fortement. 4. Se resserrer, se replier.
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 crisper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crispant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crispé participle past
- crispe first-person indicative present
- crispes indicative present second-person
- crispons first-person indicative plural
- crispez indicative plural present
- crispent indicative plural present
- crispais first-person imperfect indicative
- crispait imperfect indicative singular
- crispions first-person imperfect indicative
- crispiez imperfect indicative plural
- crispaient imperfect indicative plural
- crispai first-person historic indicative
- crispas historic indicative past
- crispa historic indicative past
- crispâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crisper?
- /kʁis.pe/
- \kʁis.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crisper in French?
crisper appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).