escompter
French, verb/ɛs.kɔ̃.te/
escompter is spelled E-S-C-O-M-P-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escompter is a French verb meaning “to discount because of a payment by anticipation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire l’escompte”.
What does escompter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discount because of a payment by anticipation
- 2
to anticipate, to be in the hope of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire l’escompte. 2. Se faire payer un effet de commerce d’avance. 3. Dépenser d’avance, rapidement, prématurément. 4. Bâtir des projets sur des espérances aléatoires.
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 escompter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- escomptant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- escompté participle past
- escompte first-person indicative present
- escomptes indicative present second-person
- escomptons first-person indicative plural
- escomptez indicative plural present
- escomptent indicative plural present
- escomptais first-person imperfect indicative
- escomptait imperfect indicative singular
- escomptions first-person imperfect indicative
- escomptiez imperfect indicative plural
- escomptaient imperfect indicative plural
- escomptai first-person historic indicative
- escomptas historic indicative past
- escompta historic indicative past
- escomptâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escompter?
- /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/
- \ɛs.kɔ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escompter in French?
escompter 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).