élaborer
French, verb/e.la.bɔ.ʁe/
élaborer is spelled É-L-A-B-O-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élaborer is a French verb meaning “to draw up, write up, make up, whip up, put together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préparer un produit par un long travail”.
What does élaborer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to draw up, write up, make up, whip up, put together
Un compositeur ou une compositrice est une personne musicienne qui élabore de la musique.
- 2
to process farther, to produce, to develop, to metabolize
L'embryon élabore une hormone […]
- 3
to elaborate, to work out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Préparer un produit par un long travail. 2. Accomplir des opérations dans les corps vivants, par lesquelles certains produits composés sont graduellement transformés en d’autres combinaisons. 3. Créer quelque chose de cohérent, en y consacrant du temps, de l'intelligence, du savoir-faire, etc.
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 élaborer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- élaborant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- élaboré participle past
- élabore first-person indicative present
- élabores indicative present second-person
- élaborons first-person indicative plural
- élaborez indicative plural present
- élaborent indicative plural present
- élaborais first-person imperfect indicative
- élaborait imperfect indicative singular
- élaborions first-person imperfect indicative
- élaboriez imperfect indicative plural
- élaboraient imperfect indicative plural
- élaborai first-person historic indicative
- élaboras historic indicative past
- élabora historic indicative past
- élaborâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élaborer?
- /e.la.bɔ.ʁe/
- \e.la.bɔ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to élaborer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élaborer in French?
élaborer appears 5.6 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).