préméditer
French, verb\pʁe.me.di.te\
préméditer is spelled P-R-É-M-É-D-I-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préméditer is a French verb meaning “to premeditate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Méditer quelque temps sur une chose, s’y décider, avant de l’exécuter”.
What does préméditer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to premeditate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Méditer quelque temps sur une chose, s’y décider, avant de l’exécuter.
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 préméditer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- préméditant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prémédité participle past
- prémédite first-person indicative present
- prémédites indicative present second-person
- préméditons first-person indicative plural
- préméditez indicative plural present
- préméditent indicative plural present
- préméditais first-person imperfect indicative
- préméditait imperfect indicative singular
- préméditions first-person imperfect indicative
- préméditiez imperfect indicative plural
- préméditaient imperfect indicative plural
- préméditai first-person historic indicative
- préméditas historic indicative past
- prémédita historic indicative past
- préméditâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce préméditer?
- \pʁe.me.di.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is préméditer in French?
préméditer appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).