cravater
French, verb/kʁa.va.te/
cravater is spelled C-R-A-V-A-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cravater is a French verb meaning “to put on a tie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entourer le cou d’une cravate”.
What does cravater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put on a tie
- 2
to decorate someone with a chain or ribbon around the neck
- 3
to strangle, choke
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entourer le cou d’une cravate. 2. Mettre une décoration en sautoir. 3. Étrangler. 4. Prendre, arrêter.
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 cravater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cravatant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cravaté participle past
- cravate first-person indicative present
- cravates indicative present second-person
- cravatons first-person indicative plural
- cravatez indicative plural present
- cravatent indicative plural present
- cravatais first-person imperfect indicative
- cravatait imperfect indicative singular
- cravations first-person imperfect indicative
- cravatiez imperfect indicative plural
- cravataient imperfect indicative plural
- cravatai first-person historic indicative
- cravatas historic indicative past
- cravata historic indicative past
- cravatâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cravater?
- /kʁa.va.te/
- [kʁavate]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cravater in French?
cravater appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).