piger
French, verb/pi.ʒe/
piger is spelled P-I-G-E-R (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piger is a French verb meaning “to understand; to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre, saisir”.
What does piger mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalslangto understand; to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on
- 2
Canadato choose at random; to draw
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre, saisir. 2. ou Voler, détourner. 3. Attraper, dans le sens d’arrêter ou de contracter. 4. Obtenir.
verb: 1. Mesurer avec une pige l’épaisseur, la profondeur, etc. 2. Faire un pigeage. 3. Faire des piges, travailler à la pige, être pigiste pour un journal, un éditeur. 4. Payer à la ligne les piges des journalistes.
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 piger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pigeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pigé participle past
- pige first-person indicative present
- piges indicative present second-person
- pigeons first-person indicative plural
- pigez indicative plural present
- pigent indicative plural present
- pigeais first-person imperfect indicative
- pigeait imperfect indicative singular
- pigions first-person imperfect indicative
- pigiez imperfect indicative plural
- pigeaient imperfect indicative plural
- pigeai first-person historic indicative
- pigeas historic indicative past
- pigea historic indicative past
- pigeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piger?
- /pi.ʒe/
- \pi.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 piger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piger in French?
piger appears 1.0 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).