imputer
French, verb/ɛ̃.py.te/
imputer is spelled I-M-P-U-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imputer is a French verb meaning “to attribute, impute, put down to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attribuer à quelqu’un une chose digne de blâme”.
What does imputer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attribute, impute, put down to
- 2
to charge, allocate, settle
- 3
to blame oneself
- 4
to accept responsibility, take the blame
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attribuer à quelqu’un une chose digne de blâme. 2. Appliquer un paiement à une certaine dette ; déduire une somme, une valeur d’une autre somme, d’une autre valeur, l’en rabattre. 3. Appliquer aux hommes les mérites de Jésus-Christ. 4. Effectuer une imputation.
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 imputer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imputant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imputé participle past
- impute first-person indicative present
- imputes indicative present second-person
- imputons first-person indicative plural
- imputez indicative plural present
- imputent indicative plural present
- imputais first-person imperfect indicative
- imputait imperfect indicative singular
- imputions first-person imperfect indicative
- imputiez imperfect indicative plural
- imputaient imperfect indicative plural
- imputai first-person historic indicative
- imputas historic indicative past
- imputa historic indicative past
- imputâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imputer?
- /ɛ̃.py.te/
- \ɛ̃.py.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 imputer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imputer in French?
imputer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).