confronter
French, verb/kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/
confronter is spelled C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confronter is a French verb meaning “to confront” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre des personnes en présence les unes des autres, pour voir si elles conviendront d’un fait dont il…”.
What does confronter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confront
- 2
to contrast, to compare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre des personnes en présence les unes des autres, pour voir si elles conviendront d’un fait dont il s’agit. 2. Faire comparaître des témoins et des accusés, les uns devant les autres pour les interroger. 3. Conférer une chose avec une autre, examiner deux choses en même temps, pour les comparer ensemble. 4. Interroger une seule personne pour lui demander des comptes sur un comportement supposé déloyal.
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 confronter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- confrontant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- confronté participle past
- confronte first-person indicative present
- confrontes indicative present second-person
- confrontons first-person indicative plural
- confrontez indicative plural present
- confrontent indicative plural present
- confrontais first-person imperfect indicative
- confrontait imperfect indicative singular
- confrontions first-person imperfect indicative
- confrontiez imperfect indicative plural
- confrontaient imperfect indicative plural
- confrontai first-person historic indicative
- confrontas historic indicative past
- confronta historic indicative past
- confrontâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confronter?
- /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/
- \kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te\
- \kɔŋ.fʁɔŋ.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 confronter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confronter in French?
confronter appears 3.7 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).