carburer
French, verb/kaʁ.by.ʁe/
carburer is spelled C-A-R-B-U-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carburer is a French verb meaning “to carburet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Imprégner d'un carburant vaporisé”.
What does carburer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to carburet
- 2
slang(of a motor) to run well
- 3
slangto run on, live on (to use a substance to work, to get on)
Il carbure au café.
- 4
to introduce carbon into a metal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Imprégner d'un carburant vaporisé. 2. Introduire du carbone dans (un métal). 3. Fonctionner, tourner correctement ou non en parlant d’un moteur. 4. Consommer.
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 carburer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- carburant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- carburé participle past
- carbure first-person indicative present
- carbures indicative present second-person
- carburons first-person indicative plural
- carburez indicative plural present
- carburent indicative plural present
- carburais first-person imperfect indicative
- carburait imperfect indicative singular
- carburions first-person imperfect indicative
- carburiez imperfect indicative plural
- carburaient imperfect indicative plural
- carburai first-person historic indicative
- carburas historic indicative past
- carbura historic indicative past
- carburâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carburer?
- /kaʁ.by.ʁe/
- \kaʁ.by.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is carburer in French?
carburer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).