ganter
French, verb/ɡɑ̃.te/
ganter is spelled G-A-N-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ganter is a French verb meaning “to glove (cover with a glove)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recouvrir d’un gant”.
What does ganter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to glove (cover with a glove)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recouvrir d’un gant. 2. Couvrir comme un gant. 3. Mettre ses gants. 4. Avoir une certaine pointure de gants.
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 ganter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ganté participle past
- gante first-person indicative present
- gantes indicative present second-person
- gantons first-person indicative plural
- gantez indicative plural present
- gantent indicative plural present
- gantais first-person imperfect indicative
- gantait imperfect indicative singular
- gantions first-person imperfect indicative
- gantiez imperfect indicative plural
- gantaient imperfect indicative plural
- gantai first-person historic indicative
- gantas historic indicative past
- ganta historic indicative past
- gantâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ganter?
- /ɡɑ̃.te/
- \ɡɑ̃.te\
- [ɡɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ganter in French?
ganter appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).