glisser
French, verb/ɡli.se/
glisser is spelled G-L-I-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glisser is a French verb meaning “to slip, to slide, to skid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se mettre en mouvement, comme en coulant sur une surface lisse ou le long d’un autre corps”.
What does glisser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slip, to slide, to skid
se glisser dans ses vêtements
- 2
to glide
- 3
to slide
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se mettre en mouvement, comme en coulant sur une surface lisse ou le long d’un autre corps. 2. Se déplacer avec légèreté et aisance. 3. Descendre des pentes neigeuses en glissant sur un traîneau, sur un carton, etc., voire sur le fessier. 4. Effleurer un corps en parlant d'un instrument tranchant qui a dévié et qui n’entame pas profondément.
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 glisser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- glissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- glissé participle past
- glisse first-person indicative present
- glisses indicative present second-person
- glissons first-person indicative plural
- glissez indicative plural present
- glissent indicative plural present
- glissais first-person imperfect indicative
- glissait imperfect indicative singular
- glissions first-person imperfect indicative
- glissiez imperfect indicative plural
- glissaient imperfect indicative plural
- glissai first-person historic indicative
- glissas historic indicative past
- glissa historic indicative past
- glissâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glisser?
- /ɡli.se/
- \ɡli.se\
- [gli.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glisser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glisser in French?
glisser appears 9.8 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).