foirer
French, verb/fwa.ʁe/
foirer is spelled F-O-I-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,237th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foirer is a French verb meaning “to screw up, mess up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avoir la diarrhée, évacuer des excréments liquides”.
What does foirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto screw up, mess up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Avoir la diarrhée, évacuer des excréments liquides. 2. Avoir peur, défaillir de peur, céder à un relâchement, en chier. 3. Se détendre, en parlant d’un cordage, ne plus pouvoir serrer, en parlant d’une vis ou d’un pas de vis dont le filetage est détérioré. 4. Ne pas fonctionner, rater.
verb: 1. Faire la fête, la foire, s’enivrer.
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 foirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- foirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- foiré participle past
- foire first-person indicative present
- foires indicative present second-person
- foirons first-person indicative plural
- foirez indicative plural present
- foirent indicative plural present
- foirais first-person imperfect indicative
- foirait imperfect indicative singular
- foirions first-person imperfect indicative
- foiriez imperfect indicative plural
- foiraient imperfect indicative plural
- foirai first-person historic indicative
- foiras historic indicative past
- foira historic indicative past
- foirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foirer?
- /fwa.ʁe/
- \fwa.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to foirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foirer in French?
foirer appears 1.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).