décompter
French, verb/de.kɔ̃.te/
décompter is spelled D-É-C-O-M-P-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décompter is a French verb meaning “to deduct (take one thing from another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déduire, rabattre d’une somme”.
What does décompter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deduct (take one thing from another)
- 2
to pick out
- 3
to scrap
- 4
to give up on (a sick person), to leave for dead
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déduire, rabattre d’une somme. 2. Rabattre de l’opinion qu’on avait d’une chose, d’une personne.
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 décompter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- décomptant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- décompté participle past
- décompte first-person indicative present
- décomptes indicative present second-person
- décomptons first-person indicative plural
- décomptez indicative plural present
- décomptent indicative plural present
- décomptais first-person imperfect indicative
- décomptait imperfect indicative singular
- décomptions first-person imperfect indicative
- décomptiez imperfect indicative plural
- décomptaient imperfect indicative plural
- décomptai first-person historic indicative
- décomptas historic indicative past
- décompta historic indicative past
- décomptâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décompter?
- /de.kɔ̃.te/
- \de.kɔ̃.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 décompter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décompter in French?
décompter appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).