toréer
French, verb/tɔ.ʁe.e/
toréer is spelled T-O-R-É-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toréer is a French verb meaning “to fight a bull, in bullfighting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Affronter le taureau lors d’une corrida”.
What does toréer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fight a bull, in bullfighting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Affronter le taureau lors d’une corrida. 2. Imiter les gestes du matador.
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 toréer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- toréant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- toréé participle past
- torée first-person indicative present
- torées indicative present second-person
- toréons first-person indicative plural
- toréez indicative plural present
- toréent indicative plural present
- toréais first-person imperfect indicative
- toréait imperfect indicative singular
- toréions first-person imperfect indicative
- toréiez imperfect indicative plural
- toréaient imperfect indicative plural
- toréai first-person historic indicative
- toréas historic indicative past
- toréa historic indicative past
- toréâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce toréer?
- /tɔ.ʁe.e/
- \tɔ.ʁe.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is toréer in French?
toréer appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).