volter
French, verb/vɔl.te/
volter is spelled V-O-L-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Volter is a French verb meaning “to make a volt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tortiller, rouler”.
What does volter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make a volt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tortiller, rouler. 2. Exécuter une volte. 3. Changer de place pour éviter les coups de son adversaire. 4. Tourner.
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 volter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- voltant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- volté participle past
- volte first-person indicative present
- voltes indicative present second-person
- voltons first-person indicative plural
- voltez indicative plural present
- voltent indicative plural present
- voltais first-person imperfect indicative
- voltait imperfect indicative singular
- voltions first-person imperfect indicative
- voltiez imperfect indicative plural
- voltaient imperfect indicative plural
- voltai first-person historic indicative
- voltas historic indicative past
- volta historic indicative past
- voltâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce volter?
- /vɔl.te/
- \vɔl.te\
- [vɔl.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is volter in French?
volter appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).