enquêter
French, verb/ɑ̃.kɛ.te/
enquêter is spelled E-N-Q-U-Ê-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enquêter is a French verb meaning “to investigate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une enquête”.
What does enquêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to investigate
- 2
to survey
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une enquête.
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 enquêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enquêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enquêté participle past
- enquête first-person indicative present
- enquêtes indicative present second-person
- enquêtons first-person indicative plural
- enquêtez indicative plural present
- enquêtent indicative plural present
- enquêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- enquêtait imperfect indicative singular
- enquêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- enquêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- enquêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- enquêtai first-person historic indicative
- enquêtas historic indicative past
- enquêta historic indicative past
- enquêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enquêter?
- /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/
- /ɑ̃.ke.te/
- \ɑ̃.ke.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 enquêter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enquêter in French?
enquêter appears 5.9 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).