attérir
French, verb/a.te.ʁiʁ/
attérir is spelled A-T-T-É-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 138,201st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attérir is a French verb meaning “dated form of atterrir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de atterrir”.
What does attérir mean in English?
verb
- 1
dateddated form of atterrir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de atterrir.
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 attérir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attérissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attéri participle past
- attéris first-person indicative present
- attérit indicative present singular
- attérissons first-person indicative plural
- attérissez indicative plural present
- attérissent indicative plural present
- attérissais first-person imperfect indicative
- attérissait imperfect indicative singular
- attérissions first-person imperfect indicative
- attérissiez imperfect indicative plural
- attérissaient imperfect indicative plural
- attérîmes first-person historic indicative
- attérîtes historic indicative past
- attérirent historic indicative past
- attérirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attérir?
- /a.te.ʁiʁ/
- \a.te.ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is attérir in French?
attérir appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).