réfuter
French, verb/ʁe.fy.te/
réfuter is a French verb meaning “to refute, to disprove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Combattre, détruire par des raisons convaincantes ce qu’un autre a avancé ; prouver que ce qu’un adversaire a…”.
What does réfuter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refute, to disprove
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Combattre, détruire par des raisons convaincantes ce qu’un autre a avancé ; prouver que ce qu’un adversaire a dit est mal fondé ou n’est pas vrai. 2. Démontrer le contraire de.
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 réfuter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réfutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réfuté participle past
- réfute first-person indicative present
- réfutes indicative present second-person
- réfutons first-person indicative plural
- réfutez indicative plural present
- réfutent indicative plural present
- réfutais first-person imperfect indicative
- réfutait imperfect indicative singular
- réfutions first-person imperfect indicative
- réfutiez imperfect indicative plural
- réfutaient imperfect indicative plural
- réfutai first-person historic indicative
- réfutas historic indicative past
- réfuta historic indicative past
- réfutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réfuter?
- /ʁe.fy.te/
- \ʁe.fy.te\
- [ʁe.fy.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 réfuter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réfuter in French?
réfuter appears 1.5 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).