rafler
French, verb/ʁa.fle/
rafler is spelled R-A-F-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rafler is a French verb meaning “to swipe, nick, run off with (steal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Emporter brutalement, sans rien laisser”.
What does rafler mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto swipe, nick, run off with (steal)
- 2
informalto scoop
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Emporter brutalement, sans rien laisser. 2. Appréhender au cours d’une rafle policière. 3. Faire rafle.
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 rafler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- raflant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- raflé participle past
- rafle first-person indicative present
- rafles indicative present second-person
- raflons first-person indicative plural
- raflez indicative plural present
- raflent indicative plural present
- raflais first-person imperfect indicative
- raflait imperfect indicative singular
- raflions first-person imperfect indicative
- rafliez imperfect indicative plural
- raflaient imperfect indicative plural
- raflai first-person historic indicative
- raflas historic indicative past
- rafla historic indicative past
- raflâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rafler?
- /ʁa.fle/
- /ʁɑ.fle/
- \ʁa.fle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rafler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rafler in French?
rafler appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).