féliciter
French, verb/fe.li.si.te/
féliciter is spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written French, the 9,803rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Féliciter is a French verb meaning “to congratulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Complimenter quelqu’un sur un succès, sur un événement agréable”.
What does féliciter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to congratulate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Complimenter quelqu’un sur un succès, sur un événement agréable. 2. S’applaudir ; se savoir bon gré.
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 féliciter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- félicitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- félicité participle past
- félicite first-person indicative present
- félicites indicative present second-person
- félicitons first-person indicative plural
- félicitez indicative plural present
- félicitent indicative plural present
- félicitais first-person imperfect indicative
- félicitait imperfect indicative singular
- félicitions first-person imperfect indicative
- félicitiez imperfect indicative plural
- félicitaient imperfect indicative plural
- félicitai first-person historic indicative
- félicitas historic indicative past
- félicita historic indicative past
- félicitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce féliciter?
- /fe.li.si.te/
- \fe.li.si.te\
- [fe.li.si.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 féliciter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is féliciter in French?
féliciter appears 6.0 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).