rooter
French, noun\ʁu.tœʁ\
rooter is spelled R-O-O-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rooter is a French masculine noun meaning “router” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Routeur, élément intermédiaire, dans un réseau informatique, entre un commutateur (couche 2) ou une…”.
What does rooter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerouter
verb
- 1
to root
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Routeur, élément intermédiaire, dans un réseau informatique, entre un commutateur (couche 2) ou une passerelle (couche 3 et supérieures), qui définit une table de routage et commute des paquets d'une interface vers une autre.
verb: 1. Acquérir les droits root sur un équipement dont le système d’exploitation s'apparente à Unix
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 rooter
- rooters plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rootant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rooté participle past
- roote first-person indicative present
- rootes indicative present second-person
- rootons first-person indicative plural
- rootez indicative plural present
- rootent indicative plural present
- rootais first-person imperfect indicative
- rootait imperfect indicative singular
- rootions first-person imperfect indicative
- rootiez imperfect indicative plural
- rootaient imperfect indicative plural
- rootai first-person historic indicative
- rootas historic indicative past
- roota historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rooter?
- \ʁu.tœʁ\
- \ʁu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rooter in French?
rooter appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).