mésestimer
French, verb/me.zɛs.ti.me/
mésestimer is spelled M-É-S-E-S-T-I-M-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mésestimer is a French verb meaning “to misestimate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tenir quelqu’un en mésestime”.
What does mésestimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to misestimate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tenir quelqu’un en mésestime. 2. Apprécier une chose au-dessous ou au-dessus de sa valeur.
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 mésestimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mésestimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mésestimé participle past
- mésestime first-person indicative present
- mésestimes indicative present second-person
- mésestimons first-person indicative plural
- mésestimez indicative plural present
- mésestiment indicative plural present
- mésestimais first-person imperfect indicative
- mésestimait imperfect indicative singular
- mésestimions first-person imperfect indicative
- mésestimiez imperfect indicative plural
- mésestimaient imperfect indicative plural
- mésestimai first-person historic indicative
- mésestimas historic indicative past
- mésestima historic indicative past
- mésestimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mésestimer?
- /me.zɛs.ti.me/
- \me.zɛs.ti.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mésestimer in French?
mésestimer appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).