pédaler
French, verb\pe.da.le\
pédaler is spelled P-É-D-A-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pédaler is a French verb meaning “to pedal (a bicycle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire mouvoir les pédales d’une bicyclette”.
What does pédaler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pedal (a bicycle)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire mouvoir les pédales d’une bicyclette. 2. Circuler, se déplacer rapidement à bicyclette.
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 pédaler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pédalant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pédalé participle past
- pédale first-person indicative present
- pédales indicative present second-person
- pédalons first-person indicative plural
- pédalez indicative plural present
- pédalent indicative plural present
- pédalais first-person imperfect indicative
- pédalait imperfect indicative singular
- pédalions first-person imperfect indicative
- pédaliez imperfect indicative plural
- pédalaient imperfect indicative plural
- pédalai first-person historic indicative
- pédalas historic indicative past
- pédala historic indicative past
- pédalâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pédaler?
- \pe.da.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 pédaler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pédaler in French?
pédaler appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).