pelleter
French, verb/pɛl.te/
pelleter is spelled P-E-L-L-E-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 75,533rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelleter is a French verb meaning “to shovel (up)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer à l’aide d’une pelle”.
What does pelleter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shovel (up)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer à l’aide d’une pelle. 2. Déplacer la neige à l’aide d’une pelle. 3. Déplacer un problème, un enjeu.
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 pelleter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pelletant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pelleté participle past
- pellette first-person indicative present
- pellète first-person indicative present
- pellettes indicative present second-person
- pellètes indicative present second-person
- pelletons first-person indicative plural
- pelletez indicative plural present
- pellettent indicative plural present
- pellètent indicative plural present
- pelletais first-person imperfect indicative
- pelletait imperfect indicative singular
- pelletions first-person imperfect indicative
- pelletiez imperfect indicative plural
- pelletaient imperfect indicative plural
- pelletai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pelleter?
- /pɛl.te/
- \pɛl.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pelleter in French?
pelleter appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).