égoutter
French, verb/e.ɡu.te/
égoutter is spelled É-G-O-U-T-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Égoutter is a French verb meaning “to drain (to remove the liquid from something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire qu’une chose se débarrasse goutte à goutte du liquide qu’elle contient”.
What does égoutter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drain (to remove the liquid from something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire qu’une chose se débarrasse goutte à goutte du liquide qu’elle contient. 2. Se débarrasser goutte à goutte du liquide qu’elle contient, en parlant d’une chose. 3. Se débarrasser goutte à goutte du liquide qu’elle contient, en parlant d’une chose.
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 égoutter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- égouttant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- égoutté participle past
- égoutte first-person indicative present
- égouttes indicative present second-person
- égouttons first-person indicative plural
- égouttez indicative plural present
- égouttent indicative plural present
- égouttais first-person imperfect indicative
- égouttait imperfect indicative singular
- égouttions first-person imperfect indicative
- égouttiez imperfect indicative plural
- égouttaient imperfect indicative plural
- égouttai first-person historic indicative
- égouttas historic indicative past
- égoutta historic indicative past
- égouttâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce égoutter?
- /e.ɡu.te/
- \e.ɡu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is égoutter in French?
égoutter 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).