adorer
French, verb/a.dɔ.ʁe/
adorer is spelled A-D-O-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adorer is a French verb meaning “to love, to adore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Honorer une divinité en lui rendant le culte qui lui est dû”.
What does adorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to love, to adore
- 2
to worship
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Honorer une divinité en lui rendant le culte qui lui est dû. 2. Rendre des respects extraordinaires en se prosternant. 3. Aimer extrêmement (une personne). 4. Aimer extrêmement (un aliment, une chose, etc.).
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 adorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- adorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- adoré participle past
- adore first-person indicative present
- adores indicative present second-person
- adorons first-person indicative plural
- adorez indicative plural present
- adorent indicative plural present
- adorais first-person imperfect indicative
- adorait imperfect indicative singular
- adorions first-person imperfect indicative
- adoriez imperfect indicative plural
- adoraient imperfect indicative plural
- adorai first-person historic indicative
- adoras historic indicative past
- adora historic indicative past
- adorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adorer?
- /a.dɔ.ʁe/
- \a.dɔ.ʁe\
- [a.dɔ.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 adorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adorer in French?
adorer appears 4.7 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).