clapoter
French, verb/kla.pɔ.te/
clapoter is spelled C-L-A-P-O-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clapoter is a French verb meaning “to swash, slosh, lap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être agitée, en parlant de l’eau”.
What does clapoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swash, slosh, lap
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être agitée, en parlant de l’eau. 2. Faire des clapotements. 3. Faire des petits claps.
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 clapoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clapotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clapoté participle past
- clapote first-person indicative present
- clapotes indicative present second-person
- clapotons first-person indicative plural
- clapotez indicative plural present
- clapotent indicative plural present
- clapotais first-person imperfect indicative
- clapotait imperfect indicative singular
- clapotions first-person imperfect indicative
- clapotiez imperfect indicative plural
- clapotaient imperfect indicative plural
- clapotai first-person historic indicative
- clapotas historic indicative past
- clapota historic indicative past
- clapotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clapoter?
- /kla.pɔ.te/
- \kla.pɔ.te\
- [kla.pɔ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clapoter in French?
clapoter appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).