fritter
French, verb/fʁi.te/
fritter is a French verb meaning “to fritter / sinter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exposer les mélanges vitrifiables à la calcination”.
What does fritter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fritter / sinter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exposer les mélanges vitrifiables à la calcination.
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 fritter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frittant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fritté participle past
- fritte first-person indicative present
- frittes indicative present second-person
- frittons first-person indicative plural
- frittez indicative plural present
- frittent indicative plural present
- frittais first-person imperfect indicative
- frittait imperfect indicative singular
- frittions first-person imperfect indicative
- frittiez imperfect indicative plural
- frittaient imperfect indicative plural
- frittai first-person historic indicative
- frittas historic indicative past
- fritta historic indicative past
- frittâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fritter?
- /fʁi.te/
- \fʁi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fritter in French?
fritter appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).