canoter
French, verb/ka.nɔ.te/
canoter is spelled C-A-N-O-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canoter is a French verb meaning “to go canoeing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Diriger un canot de plaisance”.
What does canoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go canoeing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Diriger un canot de plaisance.
verb: 1. Marcher comme les canes, c’est-à-dire en se balançant, en se tortillant, en jetant son corps successivement à droite et à gauche.
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 canoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- canotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canoté participle past
- canote first-person indicative present
- canotes indicative present second-person
- canotons first-person indicative plural
- canotez indicative plural present
- canotent indicative plural present
- canotais first-person imperfect indicative
- canotait imperfect indicative singular
- canotions first-person imperfect indicative
- canotiez imperfect indicative plural
- canotaient imperfect indicative plural
- canotai first-person historic indicative
- canotas historic indicative past
- canota historic indicative past
- canotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canoter?
- /ka.nɔ.te/
- \ka.nɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is canoter in French?
canoter appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).