rôtir
French, verb/ʁo.tiʁ/
rôtir is spelled R-Ô-T-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rôtir is a French verb meaning “to roast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire cuire de la viande à un feu vif, de manière que le dessus soit croustillant et que l’intérieur reste…”.
What does rôtir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to roast
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire cuire de la viande à un feu vif, de manière que le dessus soit croustillant et que l’intérieur reste tendre. 2. Faire griller, saisir et dorer à la chaleur du feu. 3. Subir l’effet que cause la trop grande chaleur du soleil. 4. Bronzer.
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 rôtir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rôtissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rôti participle past
- rôtis first-person indicative present
- rôtit indicative present singular
- rôtissons first-person indicative plural
- rôtissez indicative plural present
- rôtissent indicative plural present
- rôtissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rôtissait imperfect indicative singular
- rôtissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rôtissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rôtissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rôtîmes first-person historic indicative
- rôtîtes historic indicative past
- rôtirent historic indicative past
- rôtirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rôtir?
- /ʁo.tiʁ/
- \ʁo.tiʁ\
- \ʁɔ.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rôtir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rôtir in French?
rôtir 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).