attraper
French, verb/a.tʁa.pe/
attraper is spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written French, the 7,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attraper is a French verb meaning “to trap (to capture in a trap)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable”.
What does attraper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trap (to capture in a trap)
Le renard s’est enfin laissé attraper au piège.
- 2
to catch (e.g. a ball)
- 3
to catch (a cold etc.)
attraper un rhume, une fièvre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable. 2. Prendre ; saisir. 3. Prendre sur le fait ; surprendre. 4. Surprendre artificieusement ou tromper avec malice.
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 attraper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attrapant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attrapé participle past
- attrape first-person indicative present
- attrapes indicative present second-person
- attrapons first-person indicative plural
- attrapez indicative plural present
- attrapent indicative plural present
- attrapais first-person imperfect indicative
- attrapait imperfect indicative singular
- attrapions first-person imperfect indicative
- attrapiez imperfect indicative plural
- attrapaient imperfect indicative plural
- attrapai first-person historic indicative
- attrapas historic indicative past
- attrapa historic indicative past
- attrapâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attraper?
- /a.tʁa.pe/
- \a.tʁa.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to attraper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attraper in French?
attraper appears 8.5 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).