spécifier
French, verb/spe.si.fje/
spécifier is spelled S-P-É-C-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spécifier is a French verb meaning “to specify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désigner par son trait spécifique, exprimer, déterminer en particulier, en détail”.
What does spécifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to specify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Désigner par son trait spécifique, exprimer, déterminer en particulier, en détail.
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 spécifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- spécifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- spécifié participle past
- spécifie first-person indicative present
- spécifies indicative present second-person
- spécifions first-person indicative plural
- spécifiez indicative plural present
- spécifient indicative plural present
- spécifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- spécifiait imperfect indicative singular
- spécifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- spécifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- spécifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- spécifiai first-person historic indicative
- spécifias historic indicative past
- spécifia historic indicative past
- spécifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spécifier?
- /spe.si.fje/
- \spe.si.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 spécifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spécifier in French?
spécifier appears 1.2 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).