fricoter
French, verb/fʁi.kɔ.te/
fricoter is spelled F-R-I-C-O-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fricoter is a French verb meaning “to cook a stew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un fricot, faire cuire, préparer”.
What does fricoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cook a stew
- 2
to flirt, knock about (with)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un fricot, faire cuire, préparer. 2. Manger. 3. Se rassembler pour faire bonne chère de façon discrète, voire secrète ; faire fricot. 4. Manigancer ; mijoter.
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 fricoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fricotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fricoté participle past
- fricote first-person indicative present
- fricotes indicative present second-person
- fricotons first-person indicative plural
- fricotez indicative plural present
- fricotent indicative plural present
- fricotais first-person imperfect indicative
- fricotait imperfect indicative singular
- fricotions first-person imperfect indicative
- fricotiez imperfect indicative plural
- fricotaient imperfect indicative plural
- fricotai first-person historic indicative
- fricotas historic indicative past
- fricota historic indicative past
- fricotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fricoter?
- /fʁi.kɔ.te/
- \fʁi.kɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fricoter in French?
fricoter appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).