expectorer
French, verb/ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁe/
expectorer is spelled E-X-P-E-C-T-O-R-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expectorer is a French verb meaning “to expectorate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chasser, expulser par des crachats, les mucosités et autres matières attachées aux parois des bronches et des…”.
What does expectorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expectorate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chasser, expulser par des crachats, les mucosités et autres matières attachées aux parois des bronches et des alvéoles pulmonaires.
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 expectorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expectorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- expectoré participle past
- expectore first-person indicative present
- expectores indicative present second-person
- expectorons first-person indicative plural
- expectorez indicative plural present
- expectorent indicative plural present
- expectorais first-person imperfect indicative
- expectorait imperfect indicative singular
- expectorions first-person imperfect indicative
- expectoriez imperfect indicative plural
- expectoraient imperfect indicative plural
- expectorai first-person historic indicative
- expectoras historic indicative past
- expectora historic indicative past
- expectorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expectorer?
- /ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁe/
- \ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.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 expectorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expectorer in French?
expectorer appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).