minuter
French, verb/mi.ny.te/
minuter is spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minuter is a French verb meaning “to time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déterminer la durée d'une action, d'un événement, à la minute près”.
What does minuter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to time
- 2
to take minutes (of a meeting)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déterminer la durée d'une action, d'un événement, à la minute près. 2. Rédiger la minute d’un acte ou d’un contrat.
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 minuter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- minutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- minuté participle past
- minute first-person indicative present
- minutes indicative present second-person
- minutons first-person indicative plural
- minutez indicative plural present
- minutent indicative plural present
- minutais first-person imperfect indicative
- minutait imperfect indicative singular
- minutions first-person imperfect indicative
- minutiez imperfect indicative plural
- minutaient imperfect indicative plural
- minutai first-person historic indicative
- minutas historic indicative past
- minuta historic indicative past
- minutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minuter?
- /mi.ny.te/
- \mi.ny.te\
- [mi.ny.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is minuter in French?
minuter appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).