flotter
French, verb/flɔ.te/
flotter is spelled F-L-O-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flotter is a French verb meaning “to float” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être porté par de l’eau, ou par un autre liquide”.
What does flotter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to float
- 2
to flutter, to wave
- 3
informalto mill about
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être porté par de l’eau, ou par un autre liquide. 2. Ondoyer dans les airs. 3. Être en suspension dans l’air. 4. Dans un vêtement : porter un ou des vêtements trop large(s).
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 flotter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flottant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flotté participle past
- flotte first-person indicative present
- flottes indicative present second-person
- flottons first-person indicative plural
- flottez indicative plural present
- flottent indicative plural present
- flottais first-person imperfect indicative
- flottait imperfect indicative singular
- flottions first-person imperfect indicative
- flottiez imperfect indicative plural
- flottaient imperfect indicative plural
- flottai first-person historic indicative
- flottas historic indicative past
- flotta historic indicative past
- flottâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flotter?
- /flɔ.te/
- \flo.te\
- \flɔ.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 flotter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flotter in French?
flotter appears 1.9 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).