risquer
French, verb/ʁis.ke/
risquer is spelled R-I-S-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Risquer is a French verb meaning “to risk, to put at risk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hasarder, exposer à un danger possible, à une chance douteuse”.
What does risquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to risk, to put at risk
J'ai risqué ma vie pour toi.
- 2
to face, to incur
Ils risquent une peine de prison.
- 3
to run the risk of; to be likely to
Si tu fais ça, tu risques de le regretter plus tard.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hasarder, exposer à un danger possible, à une chance douteuse. 2. Courir le risque, oser le hasard de. 3. Oser une parole. 4. S’aventurer ; se hasarder.
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 risquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- risquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- risqué participle past
- risque first-person indicative present
- risques indicative present second-person
- risquons first-person indicative plural
- risquez indicative plural present
- risquent indicative plural present
- risquais first-person imperfect indicative
- risquait imperfect indicative singular
- risquions first-person imperfect indicative
- risquiez imperfect indicative plural
- risquaient imperfect indicative plural
- risquai first-person historic indicative
- risquas historic indicative past
- risqua historic indicative past
- risquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce risquer?
- /ʁis.ke/
- \ʁis.ke\
- [ʁis.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to risquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is risquer in French?
risquer appears 7.6 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).