omettre
French, verb/ɔ.mɛtʁ/
omettre is spelled O-M-E-T-T-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Omettre is a French verb meaning “to omit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manquer, soit volontairement, soit involontairement, à faire ou à dire ce qu’on pouvait, ce qu’on devait…”.
What does omettre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to omit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manquer, soit volontairement, soit involontairement, à faire ou à dire ce qu’on pouvait, ce qu’on devait faire ou dire.
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 omettre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- omettant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- omis participle past
- omets first-person indicative present
- omet indicative present singular
- omettons first-person indicative plural
- omettez indicative plural present
- omettent indicative plural present
- omettais first-person imperfect indicative
- omettait imperfect indicative singular
- omettions first-person imperfect indicative
- omettiez imperfect indicative plural
- omettaient imperfect indicative plural
- omit historic indicative past
- omîmes first-person historic indicative
- omîtes historic indicative past
- omirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce omettre?
- /ɔ.mɛtʁ/
- \ɔ.mɛtʁ\
- [o.mɛt̪ʁ̥]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to omettre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is omettre in French?
omettre appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).