siler
French, verb/si.le/
siler is spelled S-I-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Siler is a French verb meaning “to whistle (make a whistling noise)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Siffler (pour le vent, en particulier)”.
What does siler mean in English?
verb
- 1
Quebecto whistle (make a whistling noise)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Siffler (pour le vent, en particulier). 2. Faire un son aigu dans les oreilles, siffler. 3. Émettre un son aigu. Hurler. Hurler en poussant des cris stridents. 4. Avoir les oreilles qui silent : avoir des acouphènes.
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 siler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- silant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- silé participle past
- sile first-person indicative present
- siles indicative present second-person
- silons first-person indicative plural
- silez indicative plural present
- silent indicative plural present
- silais first-person imperfect indicative
- silait imperfect indicative singular
- silions first-person imperfect indicative
- siliez imperfect indicative plural
- silaient imperfect indicative plural
- silai first-person historic indicative
- silas historic indicative past
- sila historic indicative past
- silâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce siler?
- /si.le/
- \si.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is siler in French?
siler appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).