croquer
French, verb/kʁɔ.ke/
croquer is spelled C-R-O-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Croquer is a French verb meaning “to crunch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire sous les dents un bruit sec et craquant, en parlant d’aliments qui se cassent lorsqu’on les broie”.
What does croquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crunch
- 2
colloquialto waste, squander (money etc.)
- 3
to sketch, outline
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire sous les dents un bruit sec et craquant, en parlant d’aliments qui se cassent lorsqu’on les broie. 2. Manger avec ce bruit certains aliments. 3. Manger avidement, dévorer. 4. Dilapider en peu de temps.
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 croquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- croquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- croqué participle past
- croque first-person indicative present
- croques indicative present second-person
- croquons first-person indicative plural
- croquez indicative plural present
- croquent indicative plural present
- croquais first-person imperfect indicative
- croquait imperfect indicative singular
- croquions first-person imperfect indicative
- croquiez imperfect indicative plural
- croquaient imperfect indicative plural
- croquai first-person historic indicative
- croquas historic indicative past
- croqua historic indicative past
- croquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce croquer?
- /kʁɔ.ke/
- \kʁɔ.ke\
- [kʁɔ.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to croquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is croquer in French?
croquer appears 2.0 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).