dicter
French, verb/dik.te/
dicter is spelled D-I-C-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dicter is a French verb meaning “to dictate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prononcer plus ou moins lentement et à haute voix ce qu'on fait écrire au fur et à mesure par quelqu'un”.
What does dicter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dictate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prononcer plus ou moins lentement et à haute voix ce qu'on fait écrire au fur et à mesure par quelqu'un. 2. Dire ce qu'il faut faire, donner des ordres, ordonner. 3. Dire à quelqu’un ce qu’il doit dire ou faire, suggérer. 4. Imposer ; prescrire ; édicter.
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 dicter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dictant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dicté participle past
- dicte first-person indicative present
- dictes indicative present second-person
- dictons first-person indicative plural
- dictez indicative plural present
- dictent indicative plural present
- dictais first-person imperfect indicative
- dictait imperfect indicative singular
- dictions first-person imperfect indicative
- dictiez imperfect indicative plural
- dictaient imperfect indicative plural
- dictai first-person historic indicative
- dictas historic indicative past
- dicta historic indicative past
- dictâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dicter?
- /dik.te/
- \dik.te\
- [dik.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 dicter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dicter in French?
dicter appears 2.1 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).