apponter
French, verb/a.pɔ̃.te/
apponter is spelled A-P-P-O-N-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apponter is a French verb meaning “to land (on an aircraft carrier)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se poser sur le pont d’un porte-aéronefs”.
What does apponter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to land (on an aircraft carrier)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se poser sur le pont d’un porte-aéronefs. 2. Accoster avec un bateau sur un appontement.
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 apponter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appontant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apponté participle past
- apponte first-person indicative present
- appontes indicative present second-person
- appontons first-person indicative plural
- appontez indicative plural present
- appontent indicative plural present
- appontais first-person imperfect indicative
- appontait imperfect indicative singular
- appontions first-person imperfect indicative
- appontiez imperfect indicative plural
- appontaient imperfect indicative plural
- appontai first-person historic indicative
- appontas historic indicative past
- apponta historic indicative past
- appontâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apponter?
- /a.pɔ̃.te/
- \a.pɔ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apponter in French?
apponter appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).