jasper
French, verb/ʒas.pe/
jasper is spelled J-A-S-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jasper is a French verb meaning “to apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bigarrer de diverses couleurs en imitant le jaspe”.
What does jasper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
Jasper la tranche d’un livre.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Bigarrer de diverses couleurs en imitant le jaspe.
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 jasper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jaspant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jaspé participle past
- jaspe first-person indicative present
- jaspes indicative present second-person
- jaspons first-person indicative plural
- jaspez indicative plural present
- jaspent indicative plural present
- jaspais first-person imperfect indicative
- jaspait imperfect indicative singular
- jaspions first-person imperfect indicative
- jaspiez imperfect indicative plural
- jaspaient imperfect indicative plural
- jaspai first-person historic indicative
- jaspas historic indicative past
- jaspa historic indicative past
- jaspâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jasper?
- /ʒas.pe/
- \ʒas.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is jasper in French?
jasper 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).