peloter
French, verb/pə.lɔ.te/
peloter is spelled P-E-L-O-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 85,597th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peloter is a French verb meaning “to touch up, feel up (sexually)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jouer à la paume, sans que ce soit une partie réglée ; ne faire que se jeter et se renvoyer la balle au jeu…”.
What does peloter mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto wind, roll etc. into a ball
- 2
colloquialto touch up, feel up (sexually)
- 3
colloquialto make out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jouer à la paume, sans que ce soit une partie réglée ; ne faire que se jeter et se renvoyer la balle au jeu de paume. 2. Faire quelque chose de peu de conséquence, en attendant mieux. 3. Mettre en pelote du fil, de la laine. → voir pelotonner 4. Caresser, palper sensuellement ou par jeu érotique.
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 peloter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pelotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- peloté participle past
- pelote first-person indicative present
- pelotes indicative present second-person
- pelotons first-person indicative plural
- pelotez indicative plural present
- pelotent indicative plural present
- pelotais first-person imperfect indicative
- pelotait imperfect indicative singular
- pelotions first-person imperfect indicative
- pelotiez imperfect indicative plural
- pelotaient imperfect indicative plural
- pelotai first-person historic indicative
- pelotas historic indicative past
- pelota historic indicative past
- pelotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce peloter?
- /pə.lɔ.te/
- \plɔ.te\
- \pə.lɔ.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 peloter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is peloter in French?
peloter appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).