heurter
French, verb/œʁ.te/
heurter is spelled H-E-U-R-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heurter is a French verb meaning “to strike, hit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entrer brusquement en contact”.
What does heurter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strike, hit
- 2
to clash, conflict with
- 3
to crash, collide (together)
- 4
to clash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entrer brusquement en contact. 2. Entrer en collision avec un corps. 3. Frapper à une porte pour que l’on vous ouvre. 4. Contrecarrer.
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 heurter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- heurtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- heurté participle past
- heurte first-person indicative present
- heurtes indicative present second-person
- heurtons first-person indicative plural
- heurtez indicative plural present
- heurtent indicative plural present
- heurtais first-person imperfect indicative
- heurtait imperfect indicative singular
- heurtions first-person imperfect indicative
- heurtiez imperfect indicative plural
- heurtaient imperfect indicative plural
- heurtai first-person historic indicative
- heurtas historic indicative past
- heurta historic indicative past
- heurtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce heurter?
- /œʁ.te/
- ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.te\
- [œʁ.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 heurter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heurter in French?
heurter appears 2.3 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).