excaver
French, verb/ɛk.ska.ve/
excaver is spelled E-X-C-A-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excaver is a French verb meaning “to excavate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Creuser la terre pour ouvrir un chenal, une fosse, un tunnel, etc”.
What does excaver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to excavate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Creuser la terre pour ouvrir un chenal, une fosse, un tunnel, etc. 2. Creuser, trouer.
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 excaver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- excavant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- excavé participle past
- excave first-person indicative present
- excaves indicative present second-person
- excavons first-person indicative plural
- excavez indicative plural present
- excavent indicative plural present
- excavais first-person imperfect indicative
- excavait imperfect indicative singular
- excavions first-person imperfect indicative
- excaviez imperfect indicative plural
- excavaient imperfect indicative plural
- excavai first-person historic indicative
- excavas historic indicative past
- excava historic indicative past
- excavâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excaver?
- /ɛk.ska.ve/
- \ɛks.ka.ve\
- [ɛkskave]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to excaver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is excaver in French?
excaver appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).