denier
French, noun
denier is spelled D-E-N-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Denier is a French masculine noun meaning “denier (coin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dénier is a different word: “to deny”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Monnaie romaine d’argent qui, jusqu’à l’an 536 de Rome, valait dix as et plus tard seize”.
What does denier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedenier (coin)
- 2
masculinedenier (unit of weight)
- 3
masculinemoney
verb
- 1
to deny
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Monnaie romaine d’argent qui, jusqu’à l’an 536 de Rome, valait dix as et plus tard seize. 2. Ancienne monnaie française de cuivre, qui valait la douzième partie d’un sou tournois ou le tiers d’un liard. 3. Argent. 4. Pourcentage d’intérêt.
verb: 1. Ne pas vouloir reconnaître un fait comme vrai. Il est principalement usité en termes de jurisprudence. 2. Ne pas vouloir accorder quelque chose que la bienséance, l’honnêteté, l’équité, la justice exige qu’on accorde.
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 denier
- deniers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déniant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dénié participle past
- dénie first-person indicative present
- dénies indicative present second-person
- dénions first-person indicative plural
- déniez indicative plural present
- dénient indicative plural present
- déniais first-person imperfect indicative
- déniait imperfect indicative singular
- déniions first-person imperfect indicative
- déniiez imperfect indicative plural
- déniaient imperfect indicative plural
- déniai first-person historic indicative
- dénias historic indicative past
- dénia historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to denier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is denier in French?
denier appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).