télescoper
French, verb/te.lɛs.kɔ.pe/
télescoper is spelled T-É-L-E-S-C-O-P-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Télescoper is a French verb meaning “to telescope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se replier l’un dans l’autre, en parlant d’objets qui rentrent les uns dans les autres comme les différentes…”.
What does télescoper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to telescope
- 2
to crash (into) or clash (with)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se replier l’un dans l’autre, en parlant d’objets qui rentrent les uns dans les autres comme les différentes parties d’une lunette, d’un télescope. 2. Percuter violemment. 3. Se produire simultanément avec autre chose.
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 télescoper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- télescopant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- télescopé participle past
- télescope first-person indicative present
- télescopes indicative present second-person
- télescopons first-person indicative plural
- télescopez indicative plural present
- télescopent indicative plural present
- télescopais first-person imperfect indicative
- télescopait imperfect indicative singular
- télescopions first-person imperfect indicative
- télescopiez imperfect indicative plural
- télescopaient imperfect indicative plural
- télescopai first-person historic indicative
- télescopas historic indicative past
- télescopa historic indicative past
- télescopâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce télescoper?
- /te.lɛs.kɔ.pe/
- /te.les.kɔ.pe/
- \te.le.skɔ.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is télescoper in French?
télescoper appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).