planter
French, verb/plɑ̃.te/
planter is spelled P-L-A-N-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Planter is a French verb meaning “to plant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fixer une plante en terre pour qu’elle prenne racine et qu’elle croisse”.
What does planter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plant
- 2
to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
- 3
to pitch (a tent)
- 4
informalto flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
- 5
to crash
- 6
informalto fall off
- 7
informalto fail, to not succeed
- 8
informalto break down
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer une plante en terre pour qu’elle prenne racine et qu’elle croisse. 2. Garnir d’arbres. 3. Planter des plantes. 4. Mettre en terre avec la main, au lieu de semer des graines ou des grains par poignée, et aussi pour des bulbes.
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 planter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- plantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- planté participle past
- plante first-person indicative present
- plantes indicative present second-person
- plantons first-person indicative plural
- plantez indicative plural present
- plantent indicative plural present
- plantais first-person imperfect indicative
- plantait imperfect indicative singular
- plantions first-person imperfect indicative
- plantiez imperfect indicative plural
- plantaient imperfect indicative plural
- plantai first-person historic indicative
- plantas historic indicative past
- planta historic indicative past
- plantâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce planter?
- /plɑ̃.te/
- \plɑ̃.te\
- [plɑ̃.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 planter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is planter in French?
planter appears 7.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).