mirer
French, verb/mi.ʁe/
mirer is spelled M-I-R-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mirer is a French verb meaning “to watch intensely, to stare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Viser, regarder avec attention l’endroit où doit porter le coup d’une arme à feu, d’une arbalète, etc”.
What does mirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto watch intensely, to stare
- 2
to reflect
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Viser, regarder avec attention l’endroit où doit porter le coup d’une arme à feu, d’une arbalète, etc. 2. Regarder des œufs, en les plaçant entre son œil et la lumière, pour s’assurer qu’ils sont frais. 3. Regarder par transparence. 4. Se regarder dans un miroir ou dans une autre surface réfléchissante.
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 mirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- miré participle past
- mire first-person indicative present
- mires indicative present second-person
- mirons first-person indicative plural
- mirez indicative plural present
- mirent indicative plural present
- mirais first-person imperfect indicative
- mirait imperfect indicative singular
- mirions first-person imperfect indicative
- miriez imperfect indicative plural
- miraient imperfect indicative plural
- mirai first-person historic indicative
- miras historic indicative past
- mira historic indicative past
- mirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mirer?
- /mi.ʁe/
- \mi.ʁe\
- [mi.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mirer in French?
mirer appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).