préempter
French, verb/pʁe.ɑ̃p.te/
préempter is spelled P-R-É-E-M-P-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préempter is a French verb meaning “to preempt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acheter en vertu du droit de préemption”.
What does préempter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to preempt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Acheter en vertu du droit de préemption.
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 préempter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- préemptant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- préempté participle past
- préempte first-person indicative present
- préemptes indicative present second-person
- préemptons first-person indicative plural
- préemptez indicative plural present
- préemptent indicative plural present
- préemptais first-person imperfect indicative
- préemptait imperfect indicative singular
- préemptions first-person imperfect indicative
- préemptiez imperfect indicative plural
- préemptaient imperfect indicative plural
- préemptai first-person historic indicative
- préemptas historic indicative past
- préempta historic indicative past
- préemptâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce préempter?
- /pʁe.ɑ̃p.te/
- \pʁe.ɑ̃p.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is préempter in French?
préempter appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).