filtrer
French, verb/fil.tʁe/
filtrer is spelled F-I-L-T-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filtrer is a French verb meaning “to filter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer par un filtre pour séparer un ou des éléments constituants”.
What does filtrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to filter
- 2
to leak (secret information)
Les résultats de tests sur l'identité sexuelle de la coureuse sud-africaine ont filtré dans la presse.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer par un filtre pour séparer un ou des éléments constituants. 2. Passer par un filtre, pénétrer à travers les pores, les interstices d’un corps quelconque. 3. Passer au travers d’une chose conçue comme obstacle, ralentissement, ou paroi infranchissable. 4. Trier le bon du mauvais, arrêter le mauvais pour ne laisser passer que le bon, ou au contraire, retenir le bon en laissant partir le mauvais.
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 filtrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- filtrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- filtré participle past
- filtre first-person indicative present
- filtres indicative present second-person
- filtrons first-person indicative plural
- filtrez indicative plural present
- filtrent indicative plural present
- filtrais first-person imperfect indicative
- filtrait imperfect indicative singular
- filtrions first-person imperfect indicative
- filtriez imperfect indicative plural
- filtraient imperfect indicative plural
- filtrai first-person historic indicative
- filtras historic indicative past
- filtra historic indicative past
- filtrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filtrer?
- /fil.tʁe/
- \fil.tʁe\
- [fil.tʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to filtrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filtrer in French?
filtrer appears 2.3 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).