piper
French, verb\pi.pe\
piper is spelled P-I-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piper is a French verb meaning “to pipe (a bagpipe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre à la pipée, frouer”.
What does piper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pipe (a bagpipe)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre à la pipée, frouer. 2. Tromper. 3. Modifier, contrefaire et altérer un dé, pour tricher au jeu. 4. Imiter le cri de la chouette pour attirer les petits oiseaux.
verb: 1. Transférer les données en sortie d’un premier programme vers l’entrée d’un second programme en une seule commande.
noun: 1. Cornemuseur, joueur de cornemuse.
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 piper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pipant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pipé participle past
- pipe first-person indicative present
- pipes indicative present second-person
- pipons first-person indicative plural
- pipez indicative plural present
- pipent indicative plural present
- pipais first-person imperfect indicative
- pipait imperfect indicative singular
- pipions first-person imperfect indicative
- pipiez imperfect indicative plural
- pipaient imperfect indicative plural
- pipai first-person historic indicative
- pipas historic indicative past
- pipa historic indicative past
- pipâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piper?
- \pi.pe\
- [paj.pœʁ]
- \paj.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is piper in French?
piper appears 2.0 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).