plébisciter
French, verb/ple.bi.si.te/
plébisciter is a French verb meaning “to vote by plebiscite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désigner par vote de plébiscite”.
What does plébisciter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vote by plebiscite
- 2
to approve overwhelmingly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Désigner par vote de plébiscite. 2. Approuver à une très forte majorité.
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 plébisciter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- plébiscitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- plébiscité participle past
- plébiscite first-person indicative present
- plébiscites indicative present second-person
- plébiscitons first-person indicative plural
- plébiscitez indicative plural present
- plébiscitent indicative plural present
- plébiscitais first-person imperfect indicative
- plébiscitait imperfect indicative singular
- plébiscitions first-person imperfect indicative
- plébiscitiez imperfect indicative plural
- plébiscitaient imperfect indicative plural
- plébiscitai first-person historic indicative
- plébiscitas historic indicative past
- plébiscita historic indicative past
- plébiscitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plébisciter?
- /ple.bi.si.te/
- \ple.bi.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is plébisciter in French?
plébisciter appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).