croiser
French, verb/kʁwa.ze/
croiser is spelled C-R-O-I-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Croiser is a French verb meaning “to cross, to put in the shape of a cross” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposer en forme de croix”.
What does croiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cross, to put in the shape of a cross
- 2
to cross, to go across
Croisez le chemin.
- 3
to cross, to intersect
- 4
to cross, to crossbreed
- 5
to meet unexpectedly, to run into, to bump into
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Disposer en forme de croix. 2. Disposer l’un sur l’autre. 3. Disposer un vêtement de manière que les côtés passent l’un sur l’autre. 4. Tracer une croix comme signe religieux.
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 croiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- croisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- croisé participle past
- croise first-person indicative present
- croises indicative present second-person
- croisons first-person indicative plural
- croisez indicative plural present
- croisent indicative plural present
- croisais first-person imperfect indicative
- croisait imperfect indicative singular
- croisions first-person imperfect indicative
- croisiez imperfect indicative plural
- croisaient imperfect indicative plural
- croisai first-person historic indicative
- croisas historic indicative past
- croisa historic indicative past
- croisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce croiser?
- /kʁwa.ze/
- \kʁwa.ze\
- [kʁwa.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is croiser in French?
croiser appears 8.7 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).