purifier
French, verb/py.ʁi.fje/
purifier is spelled P-U-R-I-F-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Purifier is a French verb meaning “to purify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre pur ; ôter ce qu’il y a d’impur, de grossier ou d’étranger”.
What does purifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to purify
- 2
to cleanse (cleanse something of impurities)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre pur ; ôter ce qu’il y a d’impur, de grossier ou d’étranger. 2. Procéder aux rituels qui rendent à nouveau sacrés les choses ou les êtres qui étaient considérés comme souillés. 3. Rendre plus honnête, plus conforme à la vertu, à la droiture ou à l’innocence. 4. Devenir pur ou plus pur.
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 purifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- purifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- purifié participle past
- purifie first-person indicative present
- purifies indicative present second-person
- purifions first-person indicative plural
- purifiez indicative plural present
- purifient indicative plural present
- purifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- purifiait imperfect indicative singular
- purifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- purifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- purifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- purifiai first-person historic indicative
- purifias historic indicative past
- purifia historic indicative past
- purifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce purifier?
- /py.ʁi.fje/
- \py.ʁi.fje\
- [py.ʁi.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to purifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is purifier in French?
purifier appears 1.6 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).