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métisser

French, verb/me.ti.se/

métisser is a French verb meaning “to mix” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire devenir métis”.

What does métisser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to mix

  2. 2

    to cross, crossbreed

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Faire devenir métis. 2. Mélanger à une deuxième réalité.

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 métisser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • métissant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • métissé participle past
  • métisse first-person indicative present
  • métisses indicative present second-person
  • métissons first-person indicative plural
  • métissez indicative plural present
  • métissent indicative plural present
  • métissais first-person imperfect indicative
  • métissait imperfect indicative singular
  • métissions first-person imperfect indicative
  • métissiez imperfect indicative plural
  • métissaient imperfect indicative plural
  • métissai first-person historic indicative
  • métissas historic indicative past
  • métissa historic indicative past
  • métissâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce métisser?

  • /me.ti.se/
  • \me.ti.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is métisser in French?

métisser appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).