remorquer
French, verb/ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/
remorquer is spelled R-E-M-O-R-Q-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 45,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remorquer is a French verb meaning “to tow (e.g. a trailer, vessel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traîner derrière soi, en parlant d'un bateau, des wagons, etc”.
What does remorquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tow (e.g. a trailer, vessel)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traîner derrière soi, en parlant d'un bateau, des wagons, etc.
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 remorquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- remorquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- remorqué participle past
- remorque first-person indicative present
- remorques indicative present second-person
- remorquons first-person indicative plural
- remorquez indicative plural present
- remorquent indicative plural present
- remorquais first-person imperfect indicative
- remorquait imperfect indicative singular
- remorquions first-person imperfect indicative
- remorquiez imperfect indicative plural
- remorquaient imperfect indicative plural
- remorquai first-person historic indicative
- remorquas historic indicative past
- remorqua historic indicative past
- remorquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce remorquer?
- /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/
- \ʁə.mɔʁ.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to remorquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is remorquer in French?
remorquer 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).