plaquer
French, verb/pla.ke/
plaquer is spelled P-L-A-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plaquer is a French verb meaning “to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appliquer une chose sur une autre”.
What does plaquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)
- 2
to tackle
- 3
to grapple
- 4
colloquialto leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone
Elle a plaqué son copain.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appliquer une chose sur une autre. 2. Recouvrir d’or ou d’argent laminé des bijoux, de la vaisselle de cuivre ou de tout autre métal. 3. Coller une plaque de bois précieux sur un bois commun ou un bois aggloméré. 4. Coller un élément décoratif métallique sur du bois.
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 plaquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- plaquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- plaqué participle past
- plaque first-person indicative present
- plaques indicative present second-person
- plaquons first-person indicative plural
- plaquez indicative plural present
- plaquent indicative plural present
- plaquais first-person imperfect indicative
- plaquait imperfect indicative singular
- plaquions first-person imperfect indicative
- plaquiez imperfect indicative plural
- plaquaient imperfect indicative plural
- plaquai first-person historic indicative
- plaquas historic indicative past
- plaqua historic indicative past
- plaquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plaquer?
- /pla.ke/
- \pla.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plaquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plaquer in French?
plaquer appears 1.6 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).