pâtisser
French, verb/pa.ti.se/
pâtisser is spelled P-Â-T-I-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâtisser is a French verb meaning “to make pastry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire de la pâtisserie”.
What does pâtisser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make pastry
- 2
to bake something
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire de la pâtisserie.
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 pâtisser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pâtissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pâtissé participle past
- pâtisse first-person indicative present
- pâtisses indicative present second-person
- pâtissons first-person indicative plural
- pâtissez indicative plural present
- pâtissent indicative plural present
- pâtissais first-person imperfect indicative
- pâtissait imperfect indicative singular
- pâtissions first-person imperfect indicative
- pâtissiez imperfect indicative plural
- pâtissaient imperfect indicative plural
- pâtissai first-person historic indicative
- pâtissas historic indicative past
- pâtissa historic indicative past
- pâtissâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pâtisser?
- /pa.ti.se/
- /pɑ.ti.se/
- \pɑ.ti.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pâtisser in French?
pâtisser appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).