mériter
French, verb/me.ʁi.te/
mériter is spelled M-É-R-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written French, the 11,195th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mériter is a French verb meaning “to deserve, merit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être digne, se rendre digne de”.
What does mériter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deserve, merit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être digne, se rendre digne de. 2. Avoir droit à la reconnaissance ou à la considération de..., pour les services rendus. 3. Être digne de récompense par ses talents ou par ses services. 4. Encourir ; attirer sur soi.
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 mériter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- méritant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mérité participle past
- mérite first-person indicative present
- mérites indicative present second-person
- méritons first-person indicative plural
- méritez indicative plural present
- méritent indicative plural present
- méritais first-person imperfect indicative
- méritait imperfect indicative singular
- méritions first-person imperfect indicative
- méritiez imperfect indicative plural
- méritaient imperfect indicative plural
- méritai first-person historic indicative
- méritas historic indicative past
- mérita historic indicative past
- méritâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mériter?
- /me.ʁi.te/
- \me.ʁi.te\
- [me.ʁi.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 mériter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mériter in French?
mériter appears 5.0 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).