expérimenter
French, verb/ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/
expérimenter is spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-M-E-N-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expérimenter is a French verb meaning “to experiment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vérifier par des expériences, apprendre par expérience”.
What does expérimenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to experiment
- 2
to experience
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vérifier par des expériences, apprendre par expérience. 2. Produire artificiellement et systématiquement les phénomènes de la nature en vue d’en étudier les lois et les causes, de vérifier ou de susciter des idées.
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 expérimenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expérimentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- expérimenté participle past
- expérimente first-person indicative present
- expérimentes indicative present second-person
- expérimentons first-person indicative plural
- expérimentez indicative plural present
- expérimentent indicative plural present
- expérimentais first-person imperfect indicative
- expérimentait imperfect indicative singular
- expérimentions first-person imperfect indicative
- expérimentiez imperfect indicative plural
- expérimentaient imperfect indicative plural
- expérimentai first-person historic indicative
- expérimentas historic indicative past
- expérimenta historic indicative past
- expérimentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expérimenter?
- /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/
- \ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.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 expérimenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expérimenter in French?
expérimenter appears 2.6 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).