embêter
French, verb/ɑ̃.bɛ.te/
embêter is spelled E-M-B-Ê-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embêter is a French verb meaning “to bug, bother, annoy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer un tort ou du souci”.
What does embêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bug, bother, annoy
- 2
to pick on someone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer un tort ou du souci. 2. Énerver, importuner quelqu’un. 3. Causer un souci, rendre perplexe, indécis.
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 embêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- embêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- embêté participle past
- embête first-person indicative present
- embêtes indicative present second-person
- embêtons first-person indicative plural
- embêtez indicative plural present
- embêtent indicative plural present
- embêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- embêtait imperfect indicative singular
- embêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- embêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- embêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- embêtai first-person historic indicative
- embêtas historic indicative past
- embêta historic indicative past
- embêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embêter?
- /ɑ̃.bɛ.te/
- /ɑ̃.be.te/
- \ɑ̃.be.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 embêter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embêter in French?
embêter 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).