expier
French, verb/ɛk.spje/
expier is spelled E-X-P-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,335th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expier is a French verb meaning “to expiate, to make amends for, atone for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réparer un crime, une faute par le repentir, ou une peine, un châtiment imposé ou accepté”.
What does expier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expiate, to make amends for, atone for
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réparer un crime, une faute par le repentir, ou une peine, un châtiment imposé ou accepté.
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 expier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- expié participle past
- expie first-person indicative present
- expies indicative present second-person
- expions first-person indicative plural
- expiez indicative plural present
- expient indicative plural present
- expiais first-person imperfect indicative
- expiait imperfect indicative singular
- expiions first-person imperfect indicative
- expiiez imperfect indicative plural
- expiaient imperfect indicative plural
- expiai first-person historic indicative
- expias historic indicative past
- expia historic indicative past
- expiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expier?
- /ɛk.spje/
- \ɛk.spje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to expier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expier in French?
expier appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).