instrumenter
French, verb/ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/
instrumenter is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Instrumenter is a French verb meaning “to instrument, draw up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des contrats, des procès-verbaux, des exploits et d’autres actes publics”.
What does instrumenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to instrument, draw up
- 2
to orchestrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des contrats, des procès-verbaux, des exploits et d’autres actes publics. 2. Orchestrer. 3. Poser des instruments sur un appareil, pour en déterminer la résistance, les capacités industrielles, la performance, etc. 4. Utiliser comme instrument, détourner quelque chose de son orientation originale pour l'utiliser à son profit ou considérer quelqu'un comme un simple instrument sous son angle utilitaire.
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 instrumenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- instrumentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- instrumenté participle past
- instrumente first-person indicative present
- instrumentes indicative present second-person
- instrumentons first-person indicative plural
- instrumentez indicative plural present
- instrumentent indicative plural present
- instrumentais first-person imperfect indicative
- instrumentait imperfect indicative singular
- instrumentions first-person imperfect indicative
- instrumentiez imperfect indicative plural
- instrumentaient imperfect indicative plural
- instrumentai first-person historic indicative
- instrumentas historic indicative past
- instrumenta historic indicative past
- instrumentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce instrumenter?
- /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/
- \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is instrumenter in French?
instrumenter appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).