miter
French, verb/mi.te/
miter is spelled M-I-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miter is a French verb meaning “to be eaten by mites or moths” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avoir des trous de mites (ou d’autres trous) qui apparaissent”.
What does miter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be eaten by mites or moths
- 2
to construct buildings in an unregulated pattern
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Avoir des trous de mites (ou d’autres trous) qui apparaissent. 2. Se gâter, pourrir en parlant d’aliments. 3. Faire comme des trous de mite. 4. Rendre non homogène un territoire, par exemple en dispersant les centres urbains un peu partout.
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 miter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mité participle past
- mite first-person indicative present
- mites indicative present second-person
- mitons first-person indicative plural
- mitez indicative plural present
- mitent indicative plural present
- mitais first-person imperfect indicative
- mitait imperfect indicative singular
- mitions first-person imperfect indicative
- mitiez imperfect indicative plural
- mitaient imperfect indicative plural
- mitai first-person historic indicative
- mitas historic indicative past
- mita historic indicative past
- mitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce miter?
- /mi.te/
- \mi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is miter in French?
miter appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).