crachoter
French, verb/kʁa.ʃɔ.te/
crachoter is spelled C-R-A-C-H-O-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crachoter is a French verb meaning “to spittle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cracher souvent et peu à la fois”.
What does crachoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spittle
- 2
to splutter, crackle (e.g. a radio)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cracher souvent et peu à la fois. 2. Pour un appareil sonore, produire un son peu intelligible.
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 crachoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crachotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crachoté participle past
- crachote first-person indicative present
- crachotes indicative present second-person
- crachotons first-person indicative plural
- crachotez indicative plural present
- crachotent indicative plural present
- crachotais first-person imperfect indicative
- crachotait imperfect indicative singular
- crachotions first-person imperfect indicative
- crachotiez imperfect indicative plural
- crachotaient imperfect indicative plural
- crachotai first-person historic indicative
- crachotas historic indicative past
- crachota historic indicative past
- crachotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crachoter?
- /kʁa.ʃɔ.te/
- \kʁa.ʃɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crachoter in French?
crachoter appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).