toiser
French, verb/twa.ze/
toiser is spelled T-O-I-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toiser is a French verb meaning “to size up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mesurer à la toise”.
What does toiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto measure, to gauge someone's height (originally, using a height gauge)
- 2
to size up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mesurer à la toise. 2. En particulier, mesurer la taille d’une personne. 3. Examiner quelqu’un avec une attention nuancée de dédain et parfois d’hostilité. 4. S’examiner avec une attention nuancée de dédain et parfois d’hostilité.
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 toiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- toisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- toisé participle past
- toise first-person indicative present
- toises indicative present second-person
- toisons first-person indicative plural
- toisez indicative plural present
- toisent indicative plural present
- toisais first-person imperfect indicative
- toisait imperfect indicative singular
- toisions first-person imperfect indicative
- toisiez imperfect indicative plural
- toisaient imperfect indicative plural
- toisai first-person historic indicative
- toisas historic indicative past
- toisa historic indicative past
- toisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce toiser?
- /twa.ze/
- \twa.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is toiser in French?
toiser appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).