chater
French, verb/tʃa.te/
chater is spelled C-H-A-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chater is a French verb meaning “alternative form of tchatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pratiquer le chat (clavardage) sur Internet”.
What does chater mean in English?
verb
- 1
alternative form of tchatter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pratiquer le chat (clavardage) sur Internet.
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 chater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chatant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chaté participle past
- chate first-person indicative present
- chates indicative present second-person
- chatons first-person indicative plural
- chatez indicative plural present
- chatent indicative plural present
- chatais first-person imperfect indicative
- chatait imperfect indicative singular
- chations first-person imperfect indicative
- chatiez imperfect indicative plural
- chataient imperfect indicative plural
- chatai first-person historic indicative
- chatas historic indicative past
- chata historic indicative past
- chatâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chater?
- /tʃa.te/
- \tʃa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chater in French?
chater appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).