maculer
French, verb/ma.ky.le/
maculer is spelled M-A-C-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maculer is a French verb meaning “to mark; to spoil (with a mark or marks)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tacher, barbouiller”.
What does maculer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mark; to spoil (with a mark or marks)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tacher, barbouiller. 2. En parlant des feuilles imprimées et des estampes. 3. Se tacher.
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 maculer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maculant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- maculé participle past
- macule first-person indicative present
- macules indicative present second-person
- maculons first-person indicative plural
- maculez indicative plural present
- maculent indicative plural present
- maculais first-person imperfect indicative
- maculait imperfect indicative singular
- maculions first-person imperfect indicative
- maculiez imperfect indicative plural
- maculaient imperfect indicative plural
- maculai first-person historic indicative
- maculas historic indicative past
- macula historic indicative past
- maculâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maculer?
- /ma.ky.le/
- \ma.ky.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maculer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maculer in French?
maculer appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).