saboter
French, verb/sa.bɔ.te/
saboter is spelled S-A-B-O-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saboter is a French verb meaning “to sabotage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des sabots”.
What does saboter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sabotage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des sabots. 2. Faire du bruit avec ses sabots. 3. Jouer au sabot, une sorte de toupie, faire tourner. 4. Placer un sabot, munir d’un sabot.
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 saboter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sabotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- saboté participle past
- sabote first-person indicative present
- sabotes indicative present second-person
- sabotons first-person indicative plural
- sabotez indicative plural present
- sabotent indicative plural present
- sabotais first-person imperfect indicative
- sabotait imperfect indicative singular
- sabotions first-person imperfect indicative
- sabotiez imperfect indicative plural
- sabotaient imperfect indicative plural
- sabotai first-person historic indicative
- sabotas historic indicative past
- sabota historic indicative past
- sabotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saboter?
- /sa.bɔ.te/
- \sa.bɔ.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 saboter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saboter in French?
saboter appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).