lézarder
French, verb/le.zaʁ.de/
lézarder is spelled L-É-Z-A-R-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lézarder is a French verb meaning “to crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abîmer par des fissures irrégulières”.
What does lézarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crack
verb
- 1
to bask (in the sun)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abîmer par des fissures irrégulières.
verb: 1. Faire le lézard, s’exposer de façon immobile au soleil, paresser.
verb: 1. Se fendre, se crevasser. 2. Se détruire, s’amoindrir, par parties successivement.
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 lézarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lézardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lézardé participle past
- lézarde first-person indicative present
- lézardes indicative present second-person
- lézardons first-person indicative plural
- lézardez indicative plural present
- lézardent indicative plural present
- lézardais first-person imperfect indicative
- lézardait imperfect indicative singular
- lézardions first-person imperfect indicative
- lézardiez imperfect indicative plural
- lézardaient imperfect indicative plural
- lézardai first-person historic indicative
- lézardas historic indicative past
- lézarda historic indicative past
- lézardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lézarder?
- /le.zaʁ.de/
- \le.zaʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lézarder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lézarder in French?
lézarder appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).