dactylographier
French, verb/dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fje/
dactylographier is spelled D-A-C-T-Y-L-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dactylographier is a French verb meaning “to type” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire à l’aide des doigts sur un clavier (d’ordinateur ou de machine à écrire)”.
What does dactylographier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to type
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Écrire à l’aide des doigts sur un clavier (d’ordinateur ou de machine à écrire).
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 dactylographier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dactylographiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dactylographié participle past
- dactylographie first-person indicative present
- dactylographies indicative present second-person
- dactylographions first-person indicative plural
- dactylographiez indicative plural present
- dactylographient indicative plural present
- dactylographiais first-person imperfect indicative
- dactylographiait imperfect indicative singular
- dactylographiions first-person imperfect indicative
- dactylographiiez imperfect indicative plural
- dactylographiaient imperfect indicative plural
- dactylographiai first-person historic indicative
- dactylographias historic indicative past
- dactylographia historic indicative past
- dactylographiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dactylographier?
- /dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fje/
- \dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fje\
- [dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dactylographier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dactylographier in French?
dactylographier appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).