pavoiser
French, verb/pa.vwa.ze/
pavoiser is spelled P-A-V-O-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pavoiser is a French verb meaning “to deck with flags” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir un bâtiment de ses pavois et pavillons”.
What does pavoiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deck with flags
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir un bâtiment de ses pavois et pavillons. 2. Garnir de drapeaux les édifices publics, les maisons, à l’occasion d’une fête, d’une cérémonie. 3. Décorer. 4. Décorer ou apprêter de façon à montrer sa joie ou sa fierté.
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 pavoiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pavoisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pavoisé participle past
- pavoise first-person indicative present
- pavoises indicative present second-person
- pavoisons first-person indicative plural
- pavoisez indicative plural present
- pavoisent indicative plural present
- pavoisais first-person imperfect indicative
- pavoisait imperfect indicative singular
- pavoisions first-person imperfect indicative
- pavoisiez imperfect indicative plural
- pavoisaient imperfect indicative plural
- pavoisai first-person historic indicative
- pavoisas historic indicative past
- pavoisa historic indicative past
- pavoisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pavoiser?
- /pa.vwa.ze/
- \pa.vwa.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pavoiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pavoiser in French?
pavoiser appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).