improviser
French, verb/ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.ze/
improviser is spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Improviser is a French verb meaning “to improvise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composer, sans préparation et sur-le-champ, des vers, un air de musique, un discours, etc”.
What does improviser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to improvise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Composer, sans préparation et sur-le-champ, des vers, un air de musique, un discours, etc. 2. Organiser sans préparation antérieure.
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 improviser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- improvisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- improvisé participle past
- improvise first-person indicative present
- improvises indicative present second-person
- improvisons first-person indicative plural
- improvisez indicative plural present
- improvisent indicative plural present
- improvisais first-person imperfect indicative
- improvisait imperfect indicative singular
- improvisions first-person imperfect indicative
- improvisiez imperfect indicative plural
- improvisaient imperfect indicative plural
- improvisai first-person historic indicative
- improvisas historic indicative past
- improvisa historic indicative past
- improvisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce improviser?
- /ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.ze/
- \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.ze\
- [ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to improviser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is improviser in French?
improviser appears 1.5 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).