escrimer
French, verb/ɛs.kʁi.me/
escrimer is spelled E-S-C-R-I-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escrimer is a French verb meaning “to fence, to do fencing (sport)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire de l’escrime”.
What does escrimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto fence, to do fencing (sport)
- 2
to apply oneself, to exert oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire de l’escrime. 2. Faire de l’escrime. 3. Disputer l’un contre l’autre sur quelque matière d’érudition, de science. 4. S’appliquer ; se donner du mal.
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 escrimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- escrimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- escrimé participle past
- escrime first-person indicative present
- escrimes indicative present second-person
- escrimons first-person indicative plural
- escrimez indicative plural present
- escriment indicative plural present
- escrimais first-person imperfect indicative
- escrimait imperfect indicative singular
- escrimions first-person imperfect indicative
- escrimiez imperfect indicative plural
- escrimaient imperfect indicative plural
- escrimai first-person historic indicative
- escrimas historic indicative past
- escrima historic indicative past
- escrimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escrimer?
- /ɛs.kʁi.me/
- \es.kʁi.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escrimer in French?
escrimer appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).