mépriser
French, verb/me.pʁi.ze/
mépriser is spelled M-É-P-R-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,266th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mépriser is a French verb meaning “to hate, despise, scorn, disdain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Considérer quelqu’un comme indigne d’estime”.
What does mépriser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hate, despise, scorn, disdain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Considérer quelqu’un comme indigne d’estime. 2. Dédaigner.
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 mépriser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- méprisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- méprisé participle past
- méprise first-person indicative present
- méprises indicative present second-person
- méprisons first-person indicative plural
- méprisez indicative plural present
- méprisent indicative plural present
- méprisais first-person imperfect indicative
- méprisait imperfect indicative singular
- méprisions first-person imperfect indicative
- méprisiez imperfect indicative plural
- méprisaient imperfect indicative plural
- méprisai first-person historic indicative
- méprisas historic indicative past
- méprisa historic indicative past
- méprisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mépriser?
- /me.pʁi.ze/
- \me.pʁi.ze\
- [me.pʁi.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mépriser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mépriser in French?
mépriser appears 1.9 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).