empâter
French, verb/ɑ̃.pa.te/
empâter is spelled E-M-P-Â-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). Empâter is a French verb meaning “to coat, enrobe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remplir de pâte, ou de toute autre matière pâteuse”.
What does empâter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coat, enrobe
- 2
to thicken
- 3
to puff up
- 4
to nourish
- 5
to fill out, to get fat
Il s'était considérablement empâté depuis notre dernière rencontre.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remplir de pâte, ou de toute autre matière pâteuse. 2. Étendre les couleurs de façon à leur donner de l’épaisseur ; peindre en posant les couleurs en couches épaisses. 3. Mettre les couleurs chacune à leur place, sans d’abord les mêler ou les fondre ensemble. 4. Rendre pâteux.
verb: 1. Variante de empatter.
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 empâter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empâtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empâté participle past
- empâte first-person indicative present
- empâtes indicative present second-person
- empâtons first-person indicative plural
- empâtez indicative plural present
- empâtent indicative plural present
- empâtais first-person imperfect indicative
- empâtait imperfect indicative singular
- empâtions first-person imperfect indicative
- empâtiez imperfect indicative plural
- empâtaient imperfect indicative plural
- empâtai first-person historic indicative
- empâtas historic indicative past
- empâta historic indicative past
- empâtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empâter?
- /ɑ̃.pa.te/
- /ɑ̃.pɑ.te/
- \ɑ̃.pɑ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empâter in French?
empâter 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).