ployer
French, verb/plwa.je/
ployer is spelled P-L-O-Y-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ployer is a French verb meaning “to bend, fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fléchir ; courber”.
What does ployer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend, fold
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fléchir ; courber. 2. Arranger une chose, en la pliant, en la mettant en rouleau, en paquet, etc. 3. Se plier ; se courber. 4. Céder.
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 ployer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ployant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ployé participle past
- ploie first-person indicative present
- ploies indicative present second-person
- ployons first-person indicative plural
- ployez indicative plural present
- ploient indicative plural present
- ployais first-person imperfect indicative
- ployait imperfect indicative singular
- ployions first-person imperfect indicative
- ployiez imperfect indicative plural
- ployaient imperfect indicative plural
- ployai first-person historic indicative
- ployas historic indicative past
- ploya historic indicative past
- ployâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ployer?
- /plwa.je/
- \plwa.je\
- [plwa.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ployer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ployer in French?
ployer appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).