redouter
French, verb/ʁə.du.te/
redouter is spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Redouter is a French verb meaning “to dread, to fear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Craindre fort”.
What does redouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dread, to fear
Il faut redouter les conséquences de nos choix.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Craindre fort. 2. Ne pas être à son aise dans. 3. Risquer d'être détérioré par. → voir craindre
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 redouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- redoutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- redouté participle past
- redoute first-person indicative present
- redoutes indicative present second-person
- redoutons first-person indicative plural
- redoutez indicative plural present
- redoutent indicative plural present
- redoutais first-person imperfect indicative
- redoutait imperfect indicative singular
- redoutions first-person imperfect indicative
- redoutiez imperfect indicative plural
- redoutaient imperfect indicative plural
- redoutai first-person historic indicative
- redoutas historic indicative past
- redouta historic indicative past
- redoutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce redouter?
- /ʁə.du.te/
- \ʁə.du.te\
- [ʁə.du.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to redouter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is redouter in French?
redouter appears 1.0 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).