mécontenter
French, verb/me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te/
mécontenter is spelled M-É-C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 81,899th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mécontenter is a French verb meaning “to displease, to disgruntle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre mécontent”.
What does mécontenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to displease, to disgruntle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre mécontent.
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 mécontenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mécontentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mécontenté participle past
- mécontente first-person indicative present
- mécontentes indicative present second-person
- mécontentons first-person indicative plural
- mécontentez indicative plural present
- mécontentent indicative plural present
- mécontentais first-person imperfect indicative
- mécontentait imperfect indicative singular
- mécontentions first-person imperfect indicative
- mécontentiez imperfect indicative plural
- mécontentaient imperfect indicative plural
- mécontentai first-person historic indicative
- mécontentas historic indicative past
- mécontenta historic indicative past
- mécontentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mécontenter?
- /me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te/
- \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\
- [me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mécontenter in French?
mécontenter appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).