rater
French, verb/ʁa.te/
rater is a French verb meaning “to miss (an event or a thing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ne pas partir, en parlant d’une arme à feu”.
What does rater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to miss (an event or a thing)
Il va rater le car.
- 2
informalto screw up; to mess up
J'ai raté ma vie.
- 3
to fail to fire; to misfire
Le revolver rata.
- 4
informalto fail
J'ignore pourquoi votre projet a raté.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ne pas partir, en parlant d’une arme à feu. 2. Échouer. 3. Ne pas toucher, manquer. 4. Manquer ce qu’on vise.
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 rater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ratant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- raté participle past
- rate first-person indicative present
- rates indicative present second-person
- ratons first-person indicative plural
- ratez indicative plural present
- ratent indicative plural present
- ratais first-person imperfect indicative
- ratait imperfect indicative singular
- rations first-person imperfect indicative
- ratiez imperfect indicative plural
- rataient imperfect indicative plural
- ratai first-person historic indicative
- ratas historic indicative past
- rata historic indicative past
- ratâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rater?
- /ʁa.te/
- \ʁa.te\
- [ʁa.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rater in French?
rater appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).