skipper
French, noun/ski.pœʁ/
skipper is spelled S-K-I-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Skipper is a French masculine noun meaning “skipper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Capitaine d’un bateau le plus souvent dans le nautisme ou la compétition à la voile”.
What does skipper mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineskipper
verb
- 1
to skipper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Capitaine d’un bateau le plus souvent dans le nautisme ou la compétition à la voile.
verb: 1. Diriger (un bateau) en tant que son skipper. 2. Ne pas aller en cours ou à l’école quand c’est obligatoire. 3. **Passer, sauter** une étape, une chanson ou un élément dans un processus.
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 skipper
- skippers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- skippant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- skippé participle past
- skippe first-person indicative present
- skippes indicative present second-person
- skippons first-person indicative plural
- skippez indicative plural present
- skippent indicative plural present
- skippais first-person imperfect indicative
- skippait imperfect indicative singular
- skippions first-person imperfect indicative
- skippiez imperfect indicative plural
- skippaient imperfect indicative plural
- skippai first-person historic indicative
- skippas historic indicative past
- skippa historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce skipper?
- /ski.pœʁ/
- /ski.pe/
- \ski.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 skipper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is skipper in French?
skipper appears 1.5 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).