avorter
French, verb/a.vɔʁ.te/
avorter is spelled A-V-O-R-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avorter is a French verb meaning “to fail, to come to an end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre bas accidentellement un fœtus non viable (pour les femmes, on dit « faire une fausse couche »)”.
What does avorter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fail, to come to an end
- 2
to have an abortion
- 3
to abort, to terminate
- 4
to cause an abortion
Elle a fait avorter le bébé.
- 5
(of a procedure) To end in a mistrial.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre bas accidentellement un fœtus non viable (pour les femmes, on dit « faire une fausse couche »). 2. Mettre fin volontairement à une grossesse avant son terme. 3. Interrompre volontairement une grossesse. 4. Rejeter un fœtus par une manœuvre d’avortement.
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 avorter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avortant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- avorté participle past
- avorte first-person indicative present
- avortes indicative present second-person
- avortons first-person indicative plural
- avortez indicative plural present
- avortent indicative plural present
- avortais first-person imperfect indicative
- avortait imperfect indicative singular
- avortions first-person imperfect indicative
- avortiez imperfect indicative plural
- avortaient imperfect indicative plural
- avortai first-person historic indicative
- avortas historic indicative past
- avorta historic indicative past
- avortâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avorter?
- /a.vɔʁ.te/
- \a.vɔʁ.te\
- [a.vɔʁ.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 avorter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avorter in French?
avorter appears 2.3 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).