empierrer
French, verb/ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʁe/
empierrer is spelled E-M-P-I-E-R-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written French, the 276,145th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empierrer is a French verb meaning “to metal (a road)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Revêtir de pierre grossière une chaussée, un fossé, un bassin, etc”.
What does empierrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to metal (a road)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Revêtir de pierre grossière une chaussée, un fossé, un bassin, etc.
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 empierrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empierrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empierré participle past
- empierre first-person indicative present
- empierres indicative present second-person
- empierrons first-person indicative plural
- empierrez indicative plural present
- empierrent indicative plural present
- empierrais first-person imperfect indicative
- empierrait imperfect indicative singular
- empierrions first-person imperfect indicative
- empierriez imperfect indicative plural
- empierraient imperfect indicative plural
- empierrai first-person historic indicative
- empierras historic indicative past
- empierra historic indicative past
- empierrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empierrer?
- /ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʁe/
- /ɑ̃.pje.ʁe/
- \ɑ̃.pje.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empierrer in French?
empierrer appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).