récolter
French, verb/ʁe.kɔl.te/
récolter is spelled R-É-C-O-L-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Récolter is a French verb meaning “to harvest (to reap)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une récolte”.
What does récolter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harvest (to reap)
La règle générale est donc d'attendre jusqu'à 45 [quarante-cinq] ans après la plantation d'un érable avant de commencer à récolter son eau.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une récolte. 2. Gagner par son labeur. 3. Recevoir en retour.
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 récolter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- récoltant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- récolté participle past
- récolte first-person indicative present
- récoltes indicative present second-person
- récoltons first-person indicative plural
- récoltez indicative plural present
- récoltent indicative plural present
- récoltais first-person imperfect indicative
- récoltait imperfect indicative singular
- récoltions first-person imperfect indicative
- récoltiez imperfect indicative plural
- récoltaient imperfect indicative plural
- récoltai first-person historic indicative
- récoltas historic indicative past
- récolta historic indicative past
- récoltâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce récolter?
- /ʁe.kɔl.te/
- \ʁe.kɔl.te\
- [ʁe.kɔl.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to récolter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is récolter in French?
récolter appears 5.6 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).