basculer
French, verb/bas.ky.le/
basculer is spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Basculer is a French verb meaning “to topple, to tip over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un mouvement de bascule”.
What does basculer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to topple, to tip over
- 2
to sway from side to side
- 3
to fall apart, to turn upside down
- 4
to transfer (e.g. a call)
- 5
to tip over, to tip up
- 6
to fail over
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un mouvement de bascule. 2. Faire faire un mouvement de bascule à quelque chose. 3. Passer d’une source, d’un système, d’un logiciel, d’une application à un(e) autre. 4. Passer d'une situation bien déterminée à une autre.
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 basculer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- basculant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- basculé participle past
- bascule first-person indicative present
- bascules indicative present second-person
- basculons first-person indicative plural
- basculez indicative plural present
- basculent indicative plural present
- basculais first-person imperfect indicative
- basculait imperfect indicative singular
- basculions first-person imperfect indicative
- basculiez imperfect indicative plural
- basculaient imperfect indicative plural
- basculai first-person historic indicative
- basculas historic indicative past
- bascula historic indicative past
- basculâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce basculer?
- /bas.ky.le/
- \bas.ky.le\
- [bas.ky.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to basculer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is basculer in French?
basculer appears 4.5 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).