pacifier
French, verb/pa.si.fje/
pacifier is spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacifier is a French verb meaning “to pacify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Apaiser, calmer en rétablissant la paix”.
What does pacifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pacify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apaiser, calmer en rétablissant la paix.
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 pacifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pacifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pacifié participle past
- pacifie first-person indicative present
- pacifies indicative present second-person
- pacifions first-person indicative plural
- pacifiez indicative plural present
- pacifient indicative plural present
- pacifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- pacifiait imperfect indicative singular
- pacifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- pacifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- pacifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- pacifiai first-person historic indicative
- pacifias historic indicative past
- pacifia historic indicative past
- pacifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pacifier?
- /pa.si.fje/
- \pa.si.fje\
- [pa.si.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pacifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pacifier in French?
pacifier appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).