incendier
French, verb/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/
incendier is spelled I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incendier is a French verb meaning “to burn down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détruire par le feu (ou mettre le feu à) un édifice, une maison, une forêt, etc”.
What does incendier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to burn down
Des pyromanes ont incendié le bâtiment la nuit dernière.
- 2
to roast (criticize severely)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détruire par le feu (ou mettre le feu à) un édifice, une maison, une forêt, etc. 2. Surexciter, enflammer, en parlant des esprits, des consciences. 3. Donner les couleurs rouges et jaunes d'un incendie. 4. Engueuler, disputer fortement.
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 incendier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- incendiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- incendié participle past
- incendie first-person indicative present
- incendies indicative present second-person
- incendions first-person indicative plural
- incendiez indicative plural present
- incendient indicative plural present
- incendiais first-person imperfect indicative
- incendiait imperfect indicative singular
- incendiions first-person imperfect indicative
- incendiiez imperfect indicative plural
- incendiaient imperfect indicative plural
- incendiai first-person historic indicative
- incendias historic indicative past
- incendia historic indicative past
- incendiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce incendier?
- /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/
- \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to incendier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incendier in French?
incendier appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).