paniquer
French, verb/pa.ni.ke/
paniquer is spelled P-A-N-I-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paniquer is a French verb meaning “to panic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre peur, s'affoler”.
What does paniquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to panic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre peur, s'affoler. 2. se dépêcher.
verb: 1. Provoquer une forte peur, effrayer, faire perdre ses moyens.
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 paniquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- paniquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- paniqué participle past
- panique first-person indicative present
- paniques indicative present second-person
- paniquons first-person indicative plural
- paniquez indicative plural present
- paniquent indicative plural present
- paniquais first-person imperfect indicative
- paniquait imperfect indicative singular
- paniquions first-person imperfect indicative
- paniquiez imperfect indicative plural
- paniquaient imperfect indicative plural
- paniquai first-person historic indicative
- paniquas historic indicative past
- paniqua historic indicative past
- paniquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce paniquer?
- /pa.ni.ke/
- \pa.ni.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to paniquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is paniquer in French?
paniquer appears 2.3 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).