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agrafer

French, verb/a.ɡʁa.fe/

agrafer is spelled A-G-R-A-F-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agrafer is a French verb meaning “to staple (secure with a staple)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attacher avec une agrafe”.

What does agrafer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to staple (secure with a staple)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Attacher avec une agrafe. 2. Se rattacher. 3. Arrêter, aborder quelqu'un.

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 agrafer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • agrafant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • agrafé participle past
  • agrafe first-person indicative present
  • agrafes indicative present second-person
  • agrafons first-person indicative plural
  • agrafez indicative plural present
  • agrafent indicative plural present
  • agrafais first-person imperfect indicative
  • agrafait imperfect indicative singular
  • agrafions first-person imperfect indicative
  • agrafiez imperfect indicative plural
  • agrafaient imperfect indicative plural
  • agrafai first-person historic indicative
  • agrafas historic indicative past
  • agrafa historic indicative past
  • agrafâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce agrafer?

  • /a.ɡʁa.fe/
  • \a.ɡʁa.fe\
  • [a.ɡʁa.fe]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to agrafer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is agrafer in French?

agrafer appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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