plaider
French, verb/plɛ.de/
plaider is spelled P-L-A-I-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written French, the 13,986th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plaider is a French verb meaning “to plead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contester en justice”.
What does plaider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plead
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Contester en justice. 2. Défendre ou soutenir de vive voix la cause ou le droit d’une partie devant les juges. 3. Défendre ; soutenir. 4. Avancer, soutenir un fait, employer, faire valoir un moyen en plaidant.
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 plaider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- plaidant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- plaidé participle past
- plaide first-person indicative present
- plaides indicative present second-person
- plaidons first-person indicative plural
- plaidez indicative plural present
- plaident indicative plural present
- plaidais first-person imperfect indicative
- plaidait imperfect indicative singular
- plaidions first-person imperfect indicative
- plaidiez imperfect indicative plural
- plaidaient imperfect indicative plural
- plaidai first-person historic indicative
- plaidas historic indicative past
- plaida historic indicative past
- plaidâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plaider?
- /plɛ.de/
- /ple.de/
- \ple.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plaider
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plaider in French?
plaider appears 3.6 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).