rider
French, verb/ʁi.de/
rider is spelled R-I-D-E-R (5 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rider is a French verb meaning “to wrinkle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des rides, causer des rides”.
What does rider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wrinkle
- 2
to ripple
Le vent ridait la surface du lac.
verb
- 1
to ride
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des rides, causer des rides. 2. Froncer. 3. Raidir, tendre un cordage.
verb: 1. Pratiquer un sport extrême ou un sport de glisse tel que le snowboard, le wakeboard, le skateboard, etc.
noun: 1. Pratiquant d’un sport extrême ou d’un sport de glisse tel que le snowboard, le skateboard, etc.
adjective: 1. Très élégant.
adverb: 1. Avec une grande élégance.
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 rider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ridant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ridé participle past
- ride first-person indicative present
- rides indicative present second-person
- ridons first-person indicative plural
- ridez indicative plural present
- rident indicative plural present
- ridais first-person imperfect indicative
- ridait imperfect indicative singular
- ridions first-person imperfect indicative
- ridiez imperfect indicative plural
- ridaient imperfect indicative plural
- ridai first-person historic indicative
- ridas historic indicative past
- rida historic indicative past
- ridâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rider?
- /ʁi.de/
- /ʁaj.de/
- \ʁi.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 rider
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rider in French?
rider appears 1.3 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).