starter
French, noun/staʁ.tœʁ/
starter is spelled S-T-A-R-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Starter is a French masculine noun meaning “starter (person or device)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Juge au départ, personne qui donne le départ d’une épreuve et qui vérifie que nul ne fait de faux départ”.
What does starter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestarter (person or device)
verb
- 1
synonym of démarrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Juge au départ, personne qui donne le départ d’une épreuve et qui vérifie que nul ne fait de faux départ. 2. Démarreur ou enrichisseur du mélange combustible utilisé pour démarrer à froid un moteur à explosion.
verb: 1. Démarrer.
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 starter
- starters plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- startant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- starté participle past
- starte first-person indicative present
- startes indicative present second-person
- startons first-person indicative plural
- startez indicative plural present
- startent indicative plural present
- startais first-person imperfect indicative
- startait imperfect indicative singular
- startions first-person imperfect indicative
- startiez imperfect indicative plural
- startaient imperfect indicative plural
- startai first-person historic indicative
- startas historic indicative past
- starta historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce starter?
- /staʁ.tœʁ/
- /staʁ.te/
- \staʁ.tɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to starter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is starter in French?
starter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).