trapper
French, verb\tʁa.pe\
trapper is spelled T-R-A-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trapper is a French verb meaning “to trap (hunt using traps)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chasser avec des trappes, piéger”.
What does trapper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trap (hunt using traps)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chasser avec des trappes, piéger. 2. Faire passer à la trappe : retirer, supprimer, annuler, déprogrammer, voire censurer (un article de journal ou un reportage audiovisuel, une information ou une question, etc.).
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 trapper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trappant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trappé participle past
- trappe first-person indicative present
- trappes indicative present second-person
- trappons first-person indicative plural
- trappez indicative plural present
- trappent indicative plural present
- trappais first-person imperfect indicative
- trappait imperfect indicative singular
- trappions first-person imperfect indicative
- trappiez imperfect indicative plural
- trappaient imperfect indicative plural
- trappai first-person historic indicative
- trappas historic indicative past
- trappa historic indicative past
- trappâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trapper?
- \tʁa.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trapper in French?
trapper appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).