inciter
French, verb/ɛ̃.si.te/
inciter is spelled I-N-C-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written French, the 8,672nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inciter is a French verb meaning “to urge; to impel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état)”.
What does inciter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to urge; to impel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état).
verb: 1. Stimuler un organe, entraîner une réponse d’un organisme vivant, en parlant d’une « puissance incitante ».
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 inciter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- incitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- incité participle past
- incite first-person indicative present
- incites indicative present second-person
- incitons first-person indicative plural
- incitez indicative plural present
- incitent indicative plural present
- incitais first-person imperfect indicative
- incitait imperfect indicative singular
- incitions first-person imperfect indicative
- incitiez imperfect indicative plural
- incitaient imperfect indicative plural
- incitai first-person historic indicative
- incitas historic indicative past
- incita historic indicative past
- incitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inciter?
- /ɛ̃.si.te/
- \ɛ̃.si.te\
- [ɛ̃.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 inciter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inciter in French?
inciter appears 7.1 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).