caler
French, verb/ka.le/
caler is spelled C-A-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caler is a French verb meaning “to wedge (open) (a door)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Baisser, en parlant des basses vergues, des mâts de hune ou de perroquet”.
What does caler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wedge (open) (a door)
- 2
to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine)
- 3
to stall (of driver, engine)
- 4
to fill (someone) up
- 5
colloquial(of person eating) to be full
- 6
to synchronize
- 7
Quebecto chug (an alcoholic beverage)
- 8
Quebecto be bald or balding, to go or be going bald
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Baisser, en parlant des basses vergues, des mâts de hune ou de perroquet. 2. Avoir la carène enfoncée plus ou moins dans l’eau, en parlant d’un navire.
verb: 1. S’arrêter brusquement, principalement à propos d’un moteur. 2. Renoncer. 3. Être repu. 4. Être complètement chauve ou être atteint de calvitie.
verb: 1. Immobiliser, mettre d’aplomb, en particulier mettre une cale. 2. Fixer, planifier un évènement. 3. Régler une presse pour imprimer le visuel désiré. 4. Rabaisser quelqu’un.
verb: 1. Ne rien faire.
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 caler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- calant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- calé participle past
- cale first-person indicative present
- cales indicative present second-person
- calons first-person indicative plural
- calez indicative plural present
- calent indicative plural present
- calais first-person imperfect indicative
- calait imperfect indicative singular
- calions first-person imperfect indicative
- caliez imperfect indicative plural
- calaient imperfect indicative plural
- calai first-person historic indicative
- calas historic indicative past
- cala historic indicative past
- calâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caler?
- /ka.le/
- \ka.le\
- \kɑ.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 caler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caler in French?
caler appears 1.7 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).