arpenter
French, verb/aʁ.pɑ̃.te/
arpenter is spelled A-R-P-E-N-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,217th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arpenter is a French verb meaning “to survey land” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mesurer des terres par toute mesure agraire”.
What does arpenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to survey land
- 2
to pace, to measure
- 3
to pace, to walk to and fro
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mesurer des terres par toute mesure agraire. 2. Parcourir à pied un espace, souvent avec vitesse et à grands pas.
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 arpenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- arpentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- arpenté participle past
- arpente first-person indicative present
- arpentes indicative present second-person
- arpentons first-person indicative plural
- arpentez indicative plural present
- arpentent indicative plural present
- arpentais first-person imperfect indicative
- arpentait imperfect indicative singular
- arpentions first-person imperfect indicative
- arpentiez imperfect indicative plural
- arpentaient imperfect indicative plural
- arpentai first-person historic indicative
- arpentas historic indicative past
- arpenta historic indicative past
- arpentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arpenter?
- /aʁ.pɑ̃.te/
- \aʁ.pɑ̃.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 arpenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arpenter in French?
arpenter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).