boursicoter
French, verb/buʁ.si.kɔ.te/
boursicoter is spelled B-O-U-R-S-I-C-O-T-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boursicoter is a French verb meaning “to set money aside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire de petites opérations de bourse”.
What does boursicoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to set money aside
- 2
to dabble on the stock market
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire de petites opérations de bourse.
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 boursicoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- boursicotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- boursicoté participle past
- boursicote first-person indicative present
- boursicotes indicative present second-person
- boursicotons first-person indicative plural
- boursicotez indicative plural present
- boursicotent indicative plural present
- boursicotais first-person imperfect indicative
- boursicotait imperfect indicative singular
- boursicotions first-person imperfect indicative
- boursicotiez imperfect indicative plural
- boursicotaient imperfect indicative plural
- boursicotai first-person historic indicative
- boursicotas historic indicative past
- boursicota historic indicative past
- boursicotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boursicoter?
- /buʁ.si.kɔ.te/
- \buʁ.si.kɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is boursicoter in French?
boursicoter appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).