palpiter
French, verb\pal.pi.te\
palpiter is spelled P-A-L-P-I-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palpiter is a French verb meaning “to palpitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être traversé de l’énergie et des mouvements rythmiques de la vie ; battre, quand il s’agit du cœur”.
What does palpiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to palpitate
- 2
to beat, flutter, to race, pulsate
faire palpiter les cœurs
- 3
to jump around, jump about
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être traversé de l’énergie et des mouvements rythmiques de la vie ; battre, quand il s’agit du cœur. 2. Être agité de petits mouvements plus ou moins convulsifs et réguliers, qui témoigne d’une tension ou d’une excitation ; avoir des palpitations. 3. Être ému, excité.
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 palpiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- palpitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- palpité participle past
- palpite first-person indicative present
- palpites indicative present second-person
- palpitons first-person indicative plural
- palpitez indicative plural present
- palpitent indicative plural present
- palpitais first-person imperfect indicative
- palpitait imperfect indicative singular
- palpitions first-person imperfect indicative
- palpitiez imperfect indicative plural
- palpitaient imperfect indicative plural
- palpitai first-person historic indicative
- palpitas historic indicative past
- palpita historic indicative past
- palpitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palpiter?
- \pal.pi.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 palpiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palpiter in French?
palpiter appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).