frapper
French, verb/fʁa.pe/
frapper is spelled F-R-A-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frapper is a French verb meaning “to hit, to strike, to bash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un ou plusieurs coups à quelqu’un, à quelque chose”.
What does frapper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hit, to strike, to bash
Il m'a frappé le bras.
- 2
to knock (e.g. on a door)
- 3
to bang (to get attention)
- 4
to beat time (as a conductor)
- 5
to strike (a chord)
- 6
to strike down
frappé par Dieu
- 7
to hit (to affect by a punishment)
- 8
to strike
frapper l'imagination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner un ou plusieurs coups à quelqu’un, à quelque chose. 2. Donner des coups à une porte pour signaler sa présence et se faire ouvrir. 3. Donner une empreinte à quelque chose, au moyen d’une matrice ou autrement. 4. Battre de la monnaie physique, des espèces.
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 frapper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frappant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- frappé participle past
- frappe first-person indicative present
- frappes indicative present second-person
- frappons first-person indicative plural
- frappez indicative plural present
- frappent indicative plural present
- frappais first-person imperfect indicative
- frappait imperfect indicative singular
- frappions first-person imperfect indicative
- frappiez imperfect indicative plural
- frappaient imperfect indicative plural
- frappai first-person historic indicative
- frappas historic indicative past
- frappa historic indicative past
- frappâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frapper?
- /fʁa.pe/
- \fʁa.pe\
- [fʁa.pe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frapper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frapper in French?
frapper appears 20 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).