accélérer
French, verb/ak.se.le.ʁe/
accélérer is a French verb meaning “to accelerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus rapide”.
What does accélérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accelerate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus rapide. 2. Augmenter la vitesse, la célérité. 3. Relancer 4. Devenir plus rapide.
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 accélérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- accélérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- accéléré participle past
- accélère first-person indicative present
- accélères indicative present second-person
- accélérons first-person indicative plural
- accélérez indicative plural present
- accélèrent indicative plural present
- accélérais first-person imperfect indicative
- accélérait imperfect indicative singular
- accélérions first-person imperfect indicative
- accélériez imperfect indicative plural
- accéléraient imperfect indicative plural
- accélérai first-person historic indicative
- accéléras historic indicative past
- accéléra historic indicative past
- accélérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accélérer?
- /ak.se.le.ʁe/
- \ak.se.le.ʁe\
- [ak.se.le.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accélérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accélérer in French?
accélérer appears 8.1 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).