flatter
French, verb/fla.te/
flatter is spelled F-L-A-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,237th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flatter is a French verb meaning “to flatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Louer excessivement dans le dessein de plaire, de séduire, d’exploiter”.
What does flatter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flatter
- 2
to pet, to caress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Louer excessivement dans le dessein de plaire, de séduire, d’exploiter. 2. Complaire aux passions, aux caprices, aux goûts de quelqu’un, leur donner son approbation, des louanges. 3. Dépeindre, représenter une personne ou quelque chose plus belle qu’elle ne l’est. 4. Caresser.
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 flatter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flattant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flatté participle past
- flatte first-person indicative present
- flattes indicative present second-person
- flattons first-person indicative plural
- flattez indicative plural present
- flattent indicative plural present
- flattais first-person imperfect indicative
- flattait imperfect indicative singular
- flattions first-person imperfect indicative
- flattiez imperfect indicative plural
- flattaient imperfect indicative plural
- flattai first-person historic indicative
- flattas historic indicative past
- flatta historic indicative past
- flattâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flatter?
- /fla.te/
- \fla.te\
- [fla.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flatter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flatter in French?
flatter appears 1.4 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).