bachoter
French, verb/ba.ʃɔ.te/
bachoter is spelled B-A-C-H-O-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bachoter is a French verb meaning “to cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préparer de manière intensive un examen ou un concours”.
What does bachoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Préparer de manière intensive un examen ou un concours.
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 bachoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bachotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bachoté participle past
- bachote first-person indicative present
- bachotes indicative present second-person
- bachotons first-person indicative plural
- bachotez indicative plural present
- bachotent indicative plural present
- bachotais first-person imperfect indicative
- bachotait imperfect indicative singular
- bachotions first-person imperfect indicative
- bachotiez imperfect indicative plural
- bachotaient imperfect indicative plural
- bachotai first-person historic indicative
- bachotas historic indicative past
- bachota historic indicative past
- bachotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bachoter?
- /ba.ʃɔ.te/
- \ba.ʃɔ.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 bachoter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bachoter in French?
bachoter appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).