empiéter
French, verb/ɑ̃.pje.te/
empiéter is spelled E-M-P-I-É-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empiéter is a French verb meaning “to encroach, impinge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Usurper dans ou sur la propriété d’autrui”.
What does empiéter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to encroach, impinge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Usurper dans ou sur la propriété d’autrui. 2. S’étendre, déborder sur, se dit principalement des eaux qui viennent à couvrir un terrain voisin. 3. S’arroger, exercer sur quelqu’un ou sur quelque chose des droits qu’on n’a pas.
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 empiéter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empiétant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empiété participle past
- empiète first-person indicative present
- empiètes indicative present second-person
- empiétons first-person indicative plural
- empiétez indicative plural present
- empiètent indicative plural present
- empiétais first-person imperfect indicative
- empiétait imperfect indicative singular
- empiétions first-person imperfect indicative
- empiétiez imperfect indicative plural
- empiétaient imperfect indicative plural
- empiétai first-person historic indicative
- empiétas historic indicative past
- empiéta historic indicative past
- empiétâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empiéter?
- /ɑ̃.pje.te/
- \ɑ̃.pje.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 empiéter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empiéter in French?
empiéter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).