dépiter
French, verb/de.pi.te/
dépiter is spelled D-É-P-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépiter is a French verb meaning “to vex greatly, frustrate greatly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remplir de dépit”.
What does dépiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vex greatly, frustrate greatly
- 2
to get annoyed
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remplir de dépit. 2. Concevoir du dépit, se fâcher, se mutiner.
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 dépiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dépitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dépité participle past
- dépite first-person indicative present
- dépites indicative present second-person
- dépitons first-person indicative plural
- dépitez indicative plural present
- dépitent indicative plural present
- dépitais first-person imperfect indicative
- dépitait imperfect indicative singular
- dépitions first-person imperfect indicative
- dépitiez imperfect indicative plural
- dépitaient imperfect indicative plural
- dépitai first-person historic indicative
- dépitas historic indicative past
- dépita historic indicative past
- dépitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépiter?
- /de.pi.te/
- \de.pi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dépiter in French?
dépiter appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).