banquer
French, verb/bɑ̃.ke/
banquer is spelled B-A-N-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Banquer is a French verb meaning “to fork out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer les canons d’organsin à la cantre pour ourdir”.
What does banquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fork out
- 2
to pay the bill
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer les canons d’organsin à la cantre pour ourdir. 2. Payer. 3. S'échouer sur un banc de sable.
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 banquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- banquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- banqué participle past
- banque first-person indicative present
- banques indicative present second-person
- banquons first-person indicative plural
- banquez indicative plural present
- banquent indicative plural present
- banquais first-person imperfect indicative
- banquait imperfect indicative singular
- banquions first-person imperfect indicative
- banquiez imperfect indicative plural
- banquaient imperfect indicative plural
- banquai first-person historic indicative
- banquas historic indicative past
- banqua historic indicative past
- banquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce banquer?
- /bɑ̃.ke/
- \bɑ̃.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is banquer in French?
banquer appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).