imbriquer
French, verb/ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/
imbriquer is spelled I-M-B-R-I-Q-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imbriquer is a French verb meaning “to imbricate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposer des éléments (par exemple, des tuiles, des blocs dans un programme informatique, etc.) de façon…”.
What does imbriquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imbricate
- 2
to nest one within another
- 3
to be interlinked, to be closely linked
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Disposer des éléments (par exemple, des tuiles, des blocs dans un programme informatique, etc.) de façon qu’ils se chevauchent ou soient les uns dans les autres. 2. Joindre de façon à ce que les divers éléments se lient mutuellement les uns aux autres pour former un tout.
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 imbriquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imbriquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imbriqué participle past
- imbrique first-person indicative present
- imbriques indicative present second-person
- imbriquons first-person indicative plural
- imbriquez indicative plural present
- imbriquent indicative plural present
- imbriquais first-person imperfect indicative
- imbriquait imperfect indicative singular
- imbriquions first-person imperfect indicative
- imbriquiez imperfect indicative plural
- imbriquaient imperfect indicative plural
- imbriquai first-person historic indicative
- imbriquas historic indicative past
- imbriqua historic indicative past
- imbriquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imbriquer?
- /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/
- \ɛ̃.bʁi.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imbriquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imbriquer in French?
imbriquer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).