contrôler
French, verb/kɔ̃.tʁo.le/
contrôler is spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written French, the 2,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrôler is a French verb meaning “to check or examine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vérifier la conformité, la régularité ou l'exactitude”.
What does contrôler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to check or examine
- 2
to control
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vérifier la conformité, la régularité ou l'exactitude. 2. Examiner avec une curiosité importune. 3. Vérifier l’identité ou la situation d’une personne au regard des règles en vigueur. 4. Apposer une marque attestant le titre ou la conformité.
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 contrôler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- contrôlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- contrôlé participle past
- contrôle first-person indicative present
- contrôles indicative present second-person
- contrôlons first-person indicative plural
- contrôlez indicative plural present
- contrôlent indicative plural present
- contrôlais first-person imperfect indicative
- contrôlait imperfect indicative singular
- contrôlions first-person imperfect indicative
- contrôliez imperfect indicative plural
- contrôlaient imperfect indicative plural
- contrôlai first-person historic indicative
- contrôlas historic indicative past
- contrôla historic indicative past
- contrôlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrôler?
- /kɔ̃.tʁo.le/
- \kɔ̃.tʁo.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contrôler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrôler in French?
contrôler appears 26 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).