riveter
French, verb\ʁi.və.te\
riveter is spelled R-I-V-E-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Riveter is a French verb meaning “to rivet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fixer avec des rivets”.
What does riveter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rivet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer avec des rivets.
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 riveter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rivetant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- riveté participle past
- rivette first-person indicative present
- rivète first-person indicative present
- rivettes indicative present second-person
- rivètes indicative present second-person
- rivetons first-person indicative plural
- rivetez indicative plural present
- rivettent indicative plural present
- rivètent indicative plural present
- rivetais first-person imperfect indicative
- rivetait imperfect indicative singular
- rivetions first-person imperfect indicative
- rivetiez imperfect indicative plural
- rivetaient imperfect indicative plural
- rivetai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce riveter?
- \ʁi.və.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 riveter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is riveter in French?
riveter appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).