perforer
French, verb/pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe/
perforer is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perforer is a French verb meaning “to perforate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Percer une enveloppe résistante”.
What does perforer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to perforate
- 2
to punch (holes in)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Percer une enveloppe résistante.
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 perforer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- perforant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- perforé participle past
- perfore first-person indicative present
- perfores indicative present second-person
- perforons first-person indicative plural
- perforez indicative plural present
- perforent indicative plural present
- perforais first-person imperfect indicative
- perforait imperfect indicative singular
- perforions first-person imperfect indicative
- perforiez imperfect indicative plural
- perforaient imperfect indicative plural
- perforai first-person historic indicative
- perforas historic indicative past
- perfora historic indicative past
- perforâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perforer?
- /pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe/
- \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to perforer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perforer in French?
perforer appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).