baratter
French, verb/ba.ʁa.te/
baratter is spelled B-A-R-A-T-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baratter is a French verb meaning “to churn (agitate rapidly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Battre la crème du lait dans une baratte”.
What does baratter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to churn (agitate rapidly)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Battre la crème du lait dans une baratte. 2. Agiter un liquide dans un récipient.
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 baratter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- barattant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- baratté participle past
- baratte first-person indicative present
- barattes indicative present second-person
- barattons first-person indicative plural
- barattez indicative plural present
- barattent indicative plural present
- barattais first-person imperfect indicative
- barattait imperfect indicative singular
- barattions first-person imperfect indicative
- barattiez imperfect indicative plural
- barattaient imperfect indicative plural
- barattai first-person historic indicative
- barattas historic indicative past
- baratta historic indicative past
- barattâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baratter?
- /ba.ʁa.te/
- \ba.ʁa.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 baratter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baratter in French?
baratter appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).