infecter
French, verb/ɛ̃.fɛk.te/
infecter is spelled I-N-F-E-C-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infecter is a French verb meaning “to infect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gâter, inoculer des germes contagieux”.
What does infecter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to infect
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gâter, inoculer des germes contagieux. 2. Empester, empuantir. 3. Contaminer un ordinateur par un logiciel malveillant.
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 infecter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- infectant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- infecté participle past
- infecte first-person indicative present
- infectes indicative present second-person
- infectons first-person indicative plural
- infectez indicative plural present
- infectent indicative plural present
- infectais first-person imperfect indicative
- infectait imperfect indicative singular
- infections first-person imperfect indicative
- infectiez imperfect indicative plural
- infectaient imperfect indicative plural
- infectai first-person historic indicative
- infectas historic indicative past
- infecta historic indicative past
- infectâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce infecter?
- /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/
- \ɛ̃.fɛk.te\
- [ɛ̃.fɛk.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 infecter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is infecter in French?
infecter 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).