chopper
French, verb/ʃɔ.pe/
chopper is spelled C-H-O-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chopper is a French verb meaning “alternative spelling of choper (“to catch”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un faux pas en heurtant du pied contre quelque chose”.
What does chopper mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto stumble
- 2
informalalternative spelling of choper (“to catch”)
“Cecilia Siharaj enceinte : L'ex-candidate de Koh-Lanta pensait avoir "choppé" une maladie très grave”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Public, (Can we date this quote?)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Silex taillé. 2. Type de moto américaine qui se caractérise par une fourche très longue.
verb: 1. Faire un faux pas en heurtant du pied contre quelque chose. 2. Se dit d’un cheval qui cède d’une jambe de l’avant-main. 3. Commettre une faute grossière. 4. Prendre par surprise.
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 chopper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- choppant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- choppé participle past
- choppe first-person indicative present
- choppes indicative present second-person
- choppons first-person indicative plural
- choppez indicative plural present
- choppent indicative plural present
- choppais first-person imperfect indicative
- choppait imperfect indicative singular
- choppions first-person imperfect indicative
- choppiez imperfect indicative plural
- choppaient imperfect indicative plural
- choppai first-person historic indicative
- choppas historic indicative past
- choppa historic indicative past
- choppâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chopper?
- /ʃɔ.pe/
- \tʃɔ.pœʁ\
- \ʃɔ.pœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chopper in French?
chopper appears 2.0 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).