croûter
French, verb
croûter is spelled C-R-O-Û-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Croûter is a French verb meaning “to eat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, crouter is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of croûter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manger, casser la croute”.
What does croûter mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto eat
- 2
datedto crust (form a crust)
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of croûter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manger, casser la croute. 2. Couvrir d’une croûte, former une croûte.
verb: 1. Chanter, en parlant des bécasses.
verb: 1. Autre orthographe de croûter.
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 croûter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- croutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crouté participle past
- croute first-person indicative present
- croutes indicative present second-person
- croutons first-person indicative plural
- croutez indicative plural present
- croutent indicative plural present
- croutais first-person imperfect indicative
- croutait imperfect indicative singular
- croutions first-person imperfect indicative
- croutiez imperfect indicative plural
- croutaient imperfect indicative plural
- croutai first-person historic indicative
- croutas historic indicative past
- crouta historic indicative past
- croutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is croûter in French?
croûter appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).