spolier
French, verb\spɔ.lje\
spolier is spelled S-P-O-L-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spolier is a French verb meaning “to despoil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépouiller par force ou par fraude”.
What does spolier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to despoil
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépouiller par force ou par fraude.
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 spolier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- spoliant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- spolié participle past
- spolie first-person indicative present
- spolies indicative present second-person
- spolions first-person indicative plural
- spoliez indicative plural present
- spolient indicative plural present
- spoliais first-person imperfect indicative
- spoliait imperfect indicative singular
- spoliions first-person imperfect indicative
- spoliiez imperfect indicative plural
- spoliaient imperfect indicative plural
- spoliai first-person historic indicative
- spolias historic indicative past
- spolia historic indicative past
- spoliâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spolier?
- \spɔ.lje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is spolier in French?
spolier appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).