pallier
French, verb/pa.lje/
pallier is spelled P-A-L-L-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pallier is a French verb meaning “to conceal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déguiser une chose négative, l’excuser en présentant seulement le bon côté des choses”.
What does pallier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conceal
- 2
to palliate (to relieve the symptoms of)
- 3
to compensate for; to make up for
Il prend tout un tas de médicaments pour pallier le manque de sommeil.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déguiser une chose négative, l’excuser en présentant seulement le bon côté des choses. 2. Remédier à une situation négative, résoudre un problème. 3. Ajouter quelque chose pour compléter, remédier à un manque. 4. Ne guérir qu’en apparence.
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 pallier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- palliant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pallié participle past
- pallie first-person indicative present
- pallies indicative present second-person
- pallions first-person indicative plural
- palliez indicative plural present
- pallient indicative plural present
- palliais first-person imperfect indicative
- palliait imperfect indicative singular
- palliions first-person imperfect indicative
- palliiez imperfect indicative plural
- palliaient imperfect indicative plural
- palliai first-person historic indicative
- pallias historic indicative past
- pallia historic indicative past
- palliâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pallier?
- /pa.lje/
- \pal.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pallier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pallier in French?
pallier appears 3.9 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).