amputer
French, verb/ɑ̃.py.te/
amputer is spelled A-M-P-U-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amputer is a French verb meaning “to amputate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever, à l’aide d’instruments tranchants, un membre, une partie du corps”.
What does amputer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amputate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever, à l’aide d’instruments tranchants, un membre, une partie du corps. 2. Retirer une partie de quelque chose, diminuer.
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 amputer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- amputant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- amputé participle past
- ampute first-person indicative present
- amputes indicative present second-person
- amputons first-person indicative plural
- amputez indicative plural present
- amputent indicative plural present
- amputais first-person imperfect indicative
- amputait imperfect indicative singular
- amputions first-person imperfect indicative
- amputiez imperfect indicative plural
- amputaient imperfect indicative plural
- amputai first-person historic indicative
- amputas historic indicative past
- amputa historic indicative past
- amputâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amputer?
- /ɑ̃.py.te/
- \ɑ̃.py.te\
- [ɑ̃.py.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 amputer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amputer in French?
amputer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).