gratter
French, verb/ɡʁa.te/
gratter is spelled G-R-A-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gratter is a French verb meaning “to scrub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Racler pour nettoyer, pour effacer ou pour polir”.
What does gratter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scrub
- 2
to scrape
- 3
to scratch
- 4
informalto itch
Ça gratte.
- 5
informalto play the guitar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Racler pour nettoyer, pour effacer ou pour polir. 2. Remuer avec ses ongles. 3. Doubler, dépasser quelqu’un ou quelque chose. 4. Récupérer ; obtenir.
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 gratter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grattant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gratté participle past
- gratte first-person indicative present
- grattes indicative present second-person
- grattons first-person indicative plural
- grattez indicative plural present
- grattent indicative plural present
- grattais first-person imperfect indicative
- grattait imperfect indicative singular
- grattions first-person imperfect indicative
- grattiez imperfect indicative plural
- grattaient imperfect indicative plural
- grattai first-person historic indicative
- grattas historic indicative past
- gratta historic indicative past
- grattâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gratter?
- /ɡʁa.te/
- \ɡʁa.te\
- [ɡʁa.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gratter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gratter in French?
gratter appears 4.3 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).