améliorer
French, verb/a.me.ljɔ.ʁe/
améliorer is spelled A-M-É-L-I-O-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written French, the 1,809th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Améliorer is a French verb meaning “to improve, better, ameliorate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre meilleur”.
What does améliorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to improve, better, ameliorate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre meilleur. 2. Donner plus de valeur, en parlant des réparations qu’on fait à un bâtiment, des augmentations de revenu d’un fonds de terre. 3. Augmenter les performances. 4. Devenir meilleur.
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 améliorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- améliorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- amélioré participle past
- améliore first-person indicative present
- améliores indicative present second-person
- améliorons first-person indicative plural
- améliorez indicative plural present
- améliorent indicative plural present
- améliorais first-person imperfect indicative
- améliorait imperfect indicative singular
- améliorions first-person imperfect indicative
- amélioriez imperfect indicative plural
- amélioraient imperfect indicative plural
- améliorai first-person historic indicative
- amélioras historic indicative past
- améliora historic indicative past
- améliorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce améliorer?
- /a.me.ljɔ.ʁe/
- \a.me.ljɔ.ʁe\
- [a.me.ljɔ.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to améliorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is améliorer in French?
améliorer appears 46 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).