éluder
French, verb/e.ly.de/
éluder is spelled É-L-U-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éluder is a French verb meaning “to elude (avoid, with cunning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Éviter avec adresse par désir de se dérober”.
What does éluder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to elude (avoid, with cunning)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Éviter avec adresse par désir de se dérober. 2. Retirer, effacer d’un texte.
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 éluder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éludant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éludé participle past
- élude first-person indicative present
- éludes indicative present second-person
- éludons first-person indicative plural
- éludez indicative plural present
- éludent indicative plural present
- éludais first-person imperfect indicative
- éludait imperfect indicative singular
- éludions first-person imperfect indicative
- éludiez imperfect indicative plural
- éludaient imperfect indicative plural
- éludai first-person historic indicative
- éludas historic indicative past
- éluda historic indicative past
- éludâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éluder?
- /e.ly.de/
- \e.ly.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éluder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éluder in French?
éluder appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).