capter
French, verb/kap.te/
capter is spelled C-A-P-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written French, the 11,014th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capter is a French verb meaning “to capture, to catch, to pick up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chercher à obtenir quelque chose, ou à gagner quelqu’un par voie d’insinuation”.
What does capter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to capture, to catch, to pick up
- 2
to detect, to sense, to receive
- 3
informalto understand
On dirait qu'il a rien capté de c'que j'lui ai raconté.
- 4
informalto meet or see someone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chercher à obtenir quelque chose, ou à gagner quelqu’un par voie d’insinuation. 2. Obtenir par des manœuvres artificieuses une donation, un legs. 3. Récupérer l’eau d’une source à l’endroit même où l’eau émerge. 4. Recevoir des ondes, de l’énergie, au moyen d’antennes, de récepteurs.
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 capter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- captant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- capté participle past
- capte first-person indicative present
- captes indicative present second-person
- captons first-person indicative plural
- captez indicative plural present
- captent indicative plural present
- captais first-person imperfect indicative
- captait imperfect indicative singular
- captions first-person imperfect indicative
- captiez imperfect indicative plural
- captaient imperfect indicative plural
- captai first-person historic indicative
- captas historic indicative past
- capta historic indicative past
- captâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capter?
- /kap.te/
- \kap.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to capter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capter in French?
capter appears 5.1 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).