appâter
French, verb/a.pa.te/
appâter is spelled A-P-P-Â-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appâter is a French verb meaning “to bait, lure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attirer avec un appât”.
What does appâter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bait, lure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attirer avec un appât. 2. Mettre la pâture dans le bec des petits oiseaux. 3. ou Attirer, séduire
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 appâter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appâtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- appâté participle past
- appâte first-person indicative present
- appâtes indicative present second-person
- appâtons first-person indicative plural
- appâtez indicative plural present
- appâtent indicative plural present
- appâtais first-person imperfect indicative
- appâtait imperfect indicative singular
- appâtions first-person imperfect indicative
- appâtiez imperfect indicative plural
- appâtaient imperfect indicative plural
- appâtai first-person historic indicative
- appâtas historic indicative past
- appâta historic indicative past
- appâtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce appâter?
- /a.pa.te/
- /a.pɑ.te/
- \a.pa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to appâter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is appâter in French?
appâter appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).