humilier
French, verb/y.mi.lje/
humilier is spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Humilier is a French verb meaning “to humiliate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abaisser en rendant plein d’humilité”.
What does humilier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to humiliate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abaisser en rendant plein d’humilité. 2. Abaisser en mortifiant ou en donnant de la confusion. 3. Faire apparaître quelque chose comme inférieure.
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 humilier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- humiliant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- humilié participle past
- humilie first-person indicative present
- humilies indicative present second-person
- humilions first-person indicative plural
- humiliez indicative plural present
- humilient indicative plural present
- humiliais first-person imperfect indicative
- humiliait imperfect indicative singular
- humiliions first-person imperfect indicative
- humiliiez imperfect indicative plural
- humiliaient imperfect indicative plural
- humiliai first-person historic indicative
- humilias historic indicative past
- humilia historic indicative past
- humiliâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce humilier?
- /y.mi.lje/
- \y.mi.lje\
- [s‿y.mi.lje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to humilier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is humilier in French?
humilier appears 3.5 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).