attirer
French, verb/a.ti.ʁe/
attirer is spelled A-T-T-I-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,391st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attirer is a French verb meaning “to attract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer à soi, faire venir à soi”.
What does attirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attract
- 2
to lure, to entice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer à soi, faire venir à soi. 2. Tirer vers soi, faire venir à soi.
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 attirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attiré participle past
- attire first-person indicative present
- attires indicative present second-person
- attirons first-person indicative plural
- attirez indicative plural present
- attirent indicative plural present
- attirais first-person imperfect indicative
- attirait imperfect indicative singular
- attirions first-person imperfect indicative
- attiriez imperfect indicative plural
- attiraient imperfect indicative plural
- attirai first-person historic indicative
- attiras historic indicative past
- attira historic indicative past
- attirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attirer?
- /a.ti.ʁe/
- \a.ti.ʁe\
- [a.ti.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 attirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attirer in French?
attirer appears 23 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).