poudrer
French, verb/pu.dʁe/
poudrer is spelled P-O-U-D-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poudrer is a French verb meaning “to powder (cover in powder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir légèrement de poudre, surtout en parlant du visage, des cheveux ou d’une perruque”.
What does poudrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to powder (cover in powder)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir légèrement de poudre, surtout en parlant du visage, des cheveux ou d’une perruque. 2. Traiter à l’aide d’un insecticide sous forme de poudre.
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 poudrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- poudrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- poudré participle past
- poudre first-person indicative present
- poudres indicative present second-person
- poudrons first-person indicative plural
- poudrez indicative plural present
- poudrent indicative plural present
- poudrais first-person imperfect indicative
- poudrait imperfect indicative singular
- poudrions first-person imperfect indicative
- poudriez imperfect indicative plural
- poudraient imperfect indicative plural
- poudrai first-person historic indicative
- poudras historic indicative past
- poudra historic indicative past
- poudrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poudrer?
- /pu.dʁe/
- \pu.dʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to poudrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is poudrer in French?
poudrer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).