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distribuer

French, verb/dis.tʁi.bɥe/

distribuer is spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-B-U-E-R (10 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Distribuer is a French verb meaning “to distribute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répartir une chose entre plusieurs personnes ou plusieurs endroits”.

What does distribuer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to distribute

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Répartir une chose entre plusieurs personnes ou plusieurs endroits. 2. Donner profusément d'une manière aléatoire. 3. Replacer dans leurs cassetins les différentes lettres qui ont servi à faire une composition. 4. Diviser ou disposer, ranger.

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 distribuer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • distribuant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • distribué participle past
  • distribue first-person indicative present
  • distribues indicative present second-person
  • distribuons first-person indicative plural
  • distribuez indicative plural present
  • distribuent indicative plural present
  • distribuais first-person imperfect indicative
  • distribuait imperfect indicative singular
  • distribuions first-person imperfect indicative
  • distribuiez imperfect indicative plural
  • distribuaient imperfect indicative plural
  • distribuai first-person historic indicative
  • distribuas historic indicative past
  • distribua historic indicative past
  • distribuâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce distribuer?

  • /dis.tʁi.bɥe/
  • \dis.tʁi.bɥe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to distribuer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is distribuer in French?

distribuer appears 7.4 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).

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