émuler
French, verb/e.my.le/
émuler is spelled É-M-U-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 85,597th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émuler is a French verb meaning “to emulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(Sens classique) Essayer d'égaler ou de surpasser quelqu’un”.
What does émuler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emulate
- 2
to emulate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (Sens classique) Essayer d'égaler ou de surpasser quelqu’un. 2. Utiliser une technique d’émulation.
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 émuler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émulé participle past
- émule first-person indicative present
- émules indicative present second-person
- émulons first-person indicative plural
- émulez indicative plural present
- émulent indicative plural present
- émulais first-person imperfect indicative
- émulait imperfect indicative singular
- émulions first-person imperfect indicative
- émuliez imperfect indicative plural
- émulaient imperfect indicative plural
- émulai first-person historic indicative
- émulas historic indicative past
- émula historic indicative past
- émulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émuler?
- /e.my.le/
- \e.my.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émuler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émuler in French?
émuler appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).