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snifer

French, verb\sni.fe\

snifer is spelled S-N-I-F-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written French, the 273,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Snifer is a French verb meaning “alternative form of sniffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de sniffer”.

What does snifer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    alternative form of sniffer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Variante orthographique de sniffer.

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 snifer

  • avoir snifé infinitive past
  • en snifant gerund present
  • en ayant snifé gerund past
  • snifant participle present
  • snifé participle past
  • je snife indicative present
  • tu snifes indicative present
  • il/elle/on snife indicative present
  • nous snifons indicative present
  • vous snifez indicative present
  • ils/elles snifent indicative present
  • j’ai snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • tu as snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • il/elle/on a snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • nous avons snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • vous avez snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • ils/elles ont snifé indicative past multiword-construction
  • je snifais indicative imperfect

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce snifer?

  • \sni.fe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is snifer in French?

snifer appears about once in every 76 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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