muter
French, verb/my.te/
muter is spelled M-U-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muter is a French verb meaning “to transfer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Changer de forme, voire évoluer”.
What does muter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to transfer
- 2
to mutate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Changer de forme, voire évoluer. 2. Sur un organisme, se perçoit comme une modification génétique ponctuelle ou plus importante qui soit silencieuse ou avec un changement physiologique. 3. Changer d’endroit, d’emploi ou de lieu de travail.
verb: 1. Ajouter à un moût un agent qui stoppe la fermentation alcoolique.
verb: 1. Masquer un contact pour ne plus avoir d’interaction avec lui.
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 muter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- muté participle past
- mute first-person indicative present
- mutes indicative present second-person
- mutons first-person indicative plural
- mutez indicative plural present
- mutent indicative plural present
- mutais first-person imperfect indicative
- mutait imperfect indicative singular
- mutions first-person imperfect indicative
- mutiez imperfect indicative plural
- mutaient imperfect indicative plural
- mutai first-person historic indicative
- mutas historic indicative past
- muta historic indicative past
- mutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muter?
- /my.te/
- \my.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 muter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is muter in French?
muter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).