valider
French, verb/va.li.de/
valider is spelled V-A-L-I-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Valider is a French verb meaning “to validate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre valide ou déclarer valide”.
What does valider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to validate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre valide ou déclarer valide. 2. Confirmer.
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 valider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- validant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- validé participle past
- valide first-person indicative present
- valides indicative present second-person
- validons first-person indicative plural
- validez indicative plural present
- valident indicative plural present
- validais first-person imperfect indicative
- validait imperfect indicative singular
- validions first-person imperfect indicative
- validiez imperfect indicative plural
- validaient imperfect indicative plural
- validai first-person historic indicative
- validas historic indicative past
- valida historic indicative past
- validâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce valider?
- /va.li.de/
- \va.li.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to valider
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is valider in French?
valider appears 7.4 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).