photocopier
French, verb/fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/
photocopier is spelled P-H-O-T-O-C-O-P-I-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 77,345th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Photocopier is a French verb meaning “to photocopy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un duplicata via un procédé xérographique qui est une technique d'électrophotographie”.
What does photocopier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to photocopy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un duplicata via un procédé xérographique qui est une technique d'électrophotographie.
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 photocopier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- photocopiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- photocopié participle past
- photocopie first-person indicative present
- photocopies indicative present second-person
- photocopions first-person indicative plural
- photocopiez indicative plural present
- photocopient indicative plural present
- photocopiais first-person imperfect indicative
- photocopiait imperfect indicative singular
- photocopiions first-person imperfect indicative
- photocopiiez imperfect indicative plural
- photocopiaient imperfect indicative plural
- photocopiai first-person historic indicative
- photocopias historic indicative past
- photocopia historic indicative past
- photocopiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce photocopier?
- /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/
- \fo.to.kɔ.pje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is photocopier in French?
photocopier appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).