racler
French, verb
racler is spelled R-A-C-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Racler is a French verb meaning “to scrape (off), to scratch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, râcler is a different word: “alternative form of racler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gratter, frotter la surface d’un corps avec quelque chose de dur ou de tranchant, de manière à en enlever…”.
What does racler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scrape (off), to scratch
verb
- 1
alternative form of racler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gratter, frotter la surface d’un corps avec quelque chose de dur ou de tranchant, de manière à en enlever quelques parties. Râteler. 2. Enlever en raclant, en grattant. 3. Heurter en frottant. 4. Mal jouer du violon, du violoncelle, etc.
verb: 1. Variante de racler. 2. Grasseyer, parler gras et de manière traînante.
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 racler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- raclant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- raclé participle past
- racle first-person indicative present
- racles indicative present second-person
- raclons first-person indicative plural
- raclez indicative plural present
- raclent indicative plural present
- raclais first-person imperfect indicative
- raclait imperfect indicative singular
- raclions first-person imperfect indicative
- racliez imperfect indicative plural
- raclaient imperfect indicative plural
- raclai first-person historic indicative
- raclas historic indicative past
- racla historic indicative past
- raclâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to racler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is racler in French?
racler 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).