roquer
French, verb/ʁɔ.ke/
roquer is spelled R-O-Q-U-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roquer is a French verb meaning “to castle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre sa tour auprès de son roi, et faire passer le roi de l’autre côté de la tour, quand il n’y a aucune…”.
What does roquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to castle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre sa tour auprès de son roi, et faire passer le roi de l’autre côté de la tour, quand il n’y a aucune pièce entre eux, sous réserve qu'aucune des deux pièces n'ait déjà bougé, qu'aucune ne soit menacée et qu'aucune des cases traversées ne soit à portée d’une pièce adverse. 2. Déplacer d’une manière qui peut faire penser à un roque.
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 roquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- roquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- roqué participle past
- roque first-person indicative present
- roques indicative present second-person
- roquons first-person indicative plural
- roquez indicative plural present
- roquent indicative plural present
- roquais first-person imperfect indicative
- roquait imperfect indicative singular
- roquions first-person imperfect indicative
- roquiez imperfect indicative plural
- roquaient imperfect indicative plural
- roquai first-person historic indicative
- roquas historic indicative past
- roqua historic indicative past
- roquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce roquer?
- /ʁɔ.ke/
- \ʁo.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 roquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is roquer in French?
roquer appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).