écoper
French, verb/e.kɔ.pe/
écoper is spelled É-C-O-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écoper is a French verb meaning “to bail out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vider un bateau avec une écope”.
What does écoper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bail out
- 2
colloquialto get, to be on the receiving end of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vider un bateau avec une écope. 2. Pour un avion amphibie bombardier d’eau, effectuer un écopage, prélever de l’eau à la surface d’un plan d’eau afin de remplir ses réservoirs. 3. Éprouver un dommage, recevoir une forte réprimande, souvent imméritée.
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 écoper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- écopant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- écopé participle past
- écope first-person indicative present
- écopes indicative present second-person
- écopons first-person indicative plural
- écopez indicative plural present
- écopent indicative plural present
- écopais first-person imperfect indicative
- écopait imperfect indicative singular
- écopions first-person imperfect indicative
- écopiez imperfect indicative plural
- écopaient imperfect indicative plural
- écopai first-person historic indicative
- écopas historic indicative past
- écopa historic indicative past
- écopâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écoper?
- /e.kɔ.pe/
- \e.kɔ.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écoper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écoper in French?
écoper appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).