scalper
French, verb/skal.pe/
scalper is spelled S-C-A-L-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scalper is a French verb meaning “to scalp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arracher la peau du crâne”.
What does scalper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scalp
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arracher la peau du crâne. 2. Arracher la peau du crâne à un ennemi vaincu, après l’avoir coupée circulairement avec un couteau. 3. Arracher accidentellement de la peau du crâne. 4. Cribler avec un crible spécial, le scalpeur, les produits d'extraction, avant toute opération de transformation (lavage ou concassage). L'opération se nomme le « scalpage ».
noun: 1. Spéculateur à très court terme. 2. Personne qui achète des produits disponibles en nombre limité à forte demande pour les revendre plus cher que le prix du marché.
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 scalper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- scalpant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- scalpé participle past
- scalpe first-person indicative present
- scalpes indicative present second-person
- scalpons first-person indicative plural
- scalpez indicative plural present
- scalpent indicative plural present
- scalpais first-person imperfect indicative
- scalpait imperfect indicative singular
- scalpions first-person imperfect indicative
- scalpiez imperfect indicative plural
- scalpaient imperfect indicative plural
- scalpai first-person historic indicative
- scalpas historic indicative past
- scalpa historic indicative past
- scalpâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scalper?
- /skal.pe/
- \skal.pe\
- \skal.pœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scalper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scalper in French?
scalper appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).