imiter
French, verb/i.mi.te/
imiter is spelled I-M-I-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imiter is a French verb meaning “to imitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire ou s’efforcer de faire exactement la même chose que fait une personne”.
What does imiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imitate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire ou s’efforcer de faire exactement la même chose que fait une personne. 2. Prendre la conduite, les actions d’une personne pour modèle. 3. Faire l’image, la ressemblance d’une chose. 4. S’efforcer de prendre, dans ses compositions, le style, le genre, la manière d’un autre, en parlant d’un écrivain, d’un artiste.
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 imiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imité participle past
- imite first-person indicative present
- imites indicative present second-person
- imitons first-person indicative plural
- imitez indicative plural present
- imitent indicative plural present
- imitais first-person imperfect indicative
- imitait imperfect indicative singular
- imitions first-person imperfect indicative
- imitiez imperfect indicative plural
- imitaient imperfect indicative plural
- imitai first-person historic indicative
- imitas historic indicative past
- imita historic indicative past
- imitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imiter?
- /i.mi.te/
- \i.mi.te\
- [i.mi.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 imiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imiter in French?
imiter appears 4.7 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).