mystifier
French, verb/mis.ti.fje/
mystifier is spelled M-Y-S-T-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 96,749th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mystifier is a French verb meaning “to mystify, fool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abuser de la crédulité de quelqu’un pour s’amuser à ses dépens”.
What does mystifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mystify, fool
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abuser de la crédulité de quelqu’un pour s’amuser à ses dépens. 2. Abuser de la naïveté du public, pour servir un intérêt particulier.
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 mystifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mystifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mystifié participle past
- mystifie first-person indicative present
- mystifies indicative present second-person
- mystifions first-person indicative plural
- mystifiez indicative plural present
- mystifient indicative plural present
- mystifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- mystifiait imperfect indicative singular
- mystifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- mystifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- mystifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- mystifiai first-person historic indicative
- mystifias historic indicative past
- mystifia historic indicative past
- mystifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mystifier?
- /mis.ti.fje/
- \mis.ti.fje\
- [mis.ti.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mystifier in French?
mystifier appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).