recruter
French, verb/ʁə.kʁy.te/
recruter is spelled R-E-C-R-U-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,166th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recruter is a French verb meaning “to recruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lever des hommes pour le service militaire”.
What does recruter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recruit
Near-synonym: embaucher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lever des hommes pour le service militaire. 2. Sélectionner et embaucher du personnel. 3. Amener des personnes à faire partie d’une association, d’un parti, d’une école, etc. 4. Se fournir de recrues.
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 recruter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recrutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recruté participle past
- recrute first-person indicative present
- recrutes indicative present second-person
- recrutons first-person indicative plural
- recrutez indicative plural present
- recrutent indicative plural present
- recrutais first-person imperfect indicative
- recrutait imperfect indicative singular
- recrutions first-person imperfect indicative
- recrutiez imperfect indicative plural
- recrutaient imperfect indicative plural
- recrutai first-person historic indicative
- recrutas historic indicative past
- recruta historic indicative past
- recrutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recruter?
- /ʁə.kʁy.te/
- \ʁə.kʁy.te\
- [ʁə.kʁy.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 recruter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recruter in French?
recruter appears 9.1 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).