insulter
French, verb/ɛ̃.syl.te/
insulter is spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insulter is a French verb meaning “to insult” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Outrager de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser”.
What does insulter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to insult
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Outrager de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser. 2. Attaquer vivement et à découvert.
verb: 1. Manquer à ce que l’on doit aux personnes ou aux choses.
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 insulter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- insultant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- insulté participle past
- insulte first-person indicative present
- insultes indicative present second-person
- insultons first-person indicative plural
- insultez indicative plural present
- insultent indicative plural present
- insultais first-person imperfect indicative
- insultait imperfect indicative singular
- insultions first-person imperfect indicative
- insultiez imperfect indicative plural
- insultaient imperfect indicative plural
- insultai first-person historic indicative
- insultas historic indicative past
- insulta historic indicative past
- insultâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce insulter?
- /ɛ̃.syl.te/
- \ɛ̃.syl.te\
- [ɛ̃.syl.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 insulter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is insulter in French?
insulter appears 11 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).