compacter
French, verb/kɔ̃.pak.te/
compacter is spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compacter is a French verb meaning “to compact” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus compact, réduire le volume, l’encombrement. → voir compresser, comprimer”.
What does compacter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to compact
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus compact, réduire le volume, l’encombrement. → voir compresser, comprimer 2. Damer, tasser le sol. 3. Rendre plus compactes des données, de façon à ce qu’elles soient moins « lourdes » à transmettre ou à stocker, et rétablies sous leur forme d’origine lors de leur utilisation.
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 compacter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- compactant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- compacté participle past
- compacte first-person indicative present
- compactes indicative present second-person
- compactons first-person indicative plural
- compactez indicative plural present
- compactent indicative plural present
- compactais first-person imperfect indicative
- compactait imperfect indicative singular
- compactions first-person imperfect indicative
- compactiez imperfect indicative plural
- compactaient imperfect indicative plural
- compactai first-person historic indicative
- compactas historic indicative past
- compacta historic indicative past
- compactâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce compacter?
- /kɔ̃.pak.te/
- \kɔ̃.pak.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 compacter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is compacter in French?
compacter appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).