avitailler
French, verb/a.vi.ta.je/
avitailler is spelled A-V-I-T-A-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avitailler is a French verb meaning “to refuel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fournir de vivres une place, une ville qui court le risque d’être assiégée”.
What does avitailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto refuel
- 2
datedto restock, stock up
- 3
datedto victual
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fournir de vivres une place, une ville qui court le risque d’être assiégée 2. Approvisionner un bateau, un avion prêt à partir en carburant, vivres et produits nécessaires à la vie à bord.
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 avitailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avitaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- avitaillé participle past
- avitaille first-person indicative present
- avitailles indicative present second-person
- avitaillons first-person indicative plural
- avitaillez indicative plural present
- avitaillent indicative plural present
- avitaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- avitaillait imperfect indicative singular
- avitaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- avitailliez imperfect indicative plural
- avitaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- avitaillai first-person historic indicative
- avitaillas historic indicative past
- avitailla historic indicative past
- avitaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avitailler?
- /a.vi.ta.je/
- /a.vi.tɑ.je/
- \a.vi.ta.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avitailler in French?
avitailler appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).