marabouter
French, verb/ma.ʁa.bu.te/
marabouter is spelled M-A-R-A-B-O-U-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marabouter is a French verb meaning “to cast a spell on; to enchant (magically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter un sort à, envoûter”.
What does marabouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cast a spell on; to enchant (magically)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter un sort à, envoûter.
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 marabouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maraboutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- marabouté participle past
- maraboute first-person indicative present
- maraboutes indicative present second-person
- maraboutons first-person indicative plural
- maraboutez indicative plural present
- maraboutent indicative plural present
- maraboutais first-person imperfect indicative
- maraboutait imperfect indicative singular
- maraboutions first-person imperfect indicative
- maraboutiez imperfect indicative plural
- maraboutaient imperfect indicative plural
- maraboutai first-person historic indicative
- maraboutas historic indicative past
- marabouta historic indicative past
- maraboutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marabouter?
- /ma.ʁa.bu.te/
- \ma.ʁa.bu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is marabouter in French?
marabouter appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).