botter
French, verb/bɔ.te/
botter is spelled B-O-T-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Botter is a French verb meaning “to kick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper à l’aide du pied”.
What does botter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kick
- 2
slangto please, to like
Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper à l’aide du pied. 2. Plaire, convenir. 3. Pourvoir quelqu’un de bottes, soit en les lui fabriquant, soit en les lui vendant. 4. Chausser quelqu’un de bottes.
verb: 1. Utiliser un bot.
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 botter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bottant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- botté participle past
- botte first-person indicative present
- bottes indicative present second-person
- bottons first-person indicative plural
- bottez indicative plural present
- bottent indicative plural present
- bottais first-person imperfect indicative
- bottait imperfect indicative singular
- bottions first-person imperfect indicative
- bottiez imperfect indicative plural
- bottaient imperfect indicative plural
- bottai first-person historic indicative
- bottas historic indicative past
- botta historic indicative past
- bottâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce botter?
- /bɔ.te/
- \bɔ.te\
- [bɔte]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to botter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is botter in French?
botter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).