poêler
French, verb/pwa.le/
poêler is spelled P-O-Ê-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poêler is a French verb meaning “to fry in a frying pan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire cuire un aliment à la poêle”.
What does poêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fry in a frying pan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire cuire un aliment à la poêle. 2. Cuire lentement un plat dans un récipient couvert avec un corps gras et une garniture aromatique, généralement au four.
verb: 1. Variante de poêler.
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 poêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- poêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- poêlé participle past
- poêle first-person indicative present
- poêles indicative present second-person
- poêlons first-person indicative plural
- poêlez indicative plural present
- poêlent indicative plural present
- poêlais first-person imperfect indicative
- poêlait imperfect indicative singular
- poêlions first-person imperfect indicative
- poêliez imperfect indicative plural
- poêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- poêlai first-person historic indicative
- poêlas historic indicative past
- poêla historic indicative past
- poêlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poêler?
- /pwa.le/
- /pwɑ.le/
- \pwa.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is poêler in French?
poêler appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).