piéger
French, verb/pje.ʒe/
piéger is spelled P-I-É-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piéger is a French verb meaning “to trap (catch in a trap), to trick, to set up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attraper dans un piège”.
What does piéger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trap (catch in a trap), to trick, to set up
Deux hommes armés m'attendaient devant ma maison : ils ont voulu me piéger.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attraper dans un piège. 2. Munir (un objet, un lieu) d’un dispositif destiné à atteindre les entités qui y accéderont. 3. (En parlant de particules chargées) Attirer, contraindre dans un champ magnétique.
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 piéger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- piégeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- piégé participle past
- piège first-person indicative present
- pièges indicative present second-person
- piégeons first-person indicative plural
- piégez indicative plural present
- piègent indicative plural present
- piégeais first-person imperfect indicative
- piégeait imperfect indicative singular
- piégions first-person imperfect indicative
- piégiez imperfect indicative plural
- piégeaient imperfect indicative plural
- piégeai first-person historic indicative
- piégeas historic indicative past
- piégea historic indicative past
- piégeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piéger?
- /pje.ʒe/
- \pje.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piéger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piéger in French?
piéger 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).