fracasser
French, verb/fʁa.ka.se/
fracasser is spelled F-R-A-C-A-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,862nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fracasser is a French verb meaning “to smash (to break violently)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Briser en éclats, avec violence”.
What does fracasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smash (to break violently)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Briser en éclats, avec violence. 2. Échouer lamentablement. 3. Frapper quelqu’un, le blesser (grièvement). 4. Se dit de quelque chose de fort.
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 fracasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fracassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fracassé participle past
- fracasse first-person indicative present
- fracasses indicative present second-person
- fracassons first-person indicative plural
- fracassez indicative plural present
- fracassent indicative plural present
- fracassais first-person imperfect indicative
- fracassait imperfect indicative singular
- fracassions first-person imperfect indicative
- fracassiez imperfect indicative plural
- fracassaient imperfect indicative plural
- fracassai first-person historic indicative
- fracassas historic indicative past
- fracassa historic indicative past
- fracassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fracasser?
- /fʁa.ka.se/
- \fʁa.ka.se\
- [fʁa.ka.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fracasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fracasser in French?
fracasser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).