réconforter
French, verb/ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ.te/
réconforter is spelled R-É-C-O-N-F-O-R-T-E-R (11 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réconforter is a French verb meaning “to comfort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relever les forces, ranimer, remonter, tant au sens physique ou médical, qu'au sens moral”.
What does réconforter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to comfort
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Relever les forces, ranimer, remonter, tant au sens physique ou médical, qu'au sens moral. 2. Consoler dans l’affliction.
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 réconforter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réconfortant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réconforté participle past
- réconforte first-person indicative present
- réconfortes indicative present second-person
- réconfortons first-person indicative plural
- réconfortez indicative plural present
- réconfortent indicative plural present
- réconfortais first-person imperfect indicative
- réconfortait imperfect indicative singular
- réconfortions first-person imperfect indicative
- réconfortiez imperfect indicative plural
- réconfortaient imperfect indicative plural
- réconfortai first-person historic indicative
- réconfortas historic indicative past
- réconforta historic indicative past
- réconfortâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réconforter?
- /ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ.te/
- \ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ.te\
- [ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is réconforter in French?
réconforter appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).