rencontrer
French, verb/ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe/
rencontrer is spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-R (10 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written French, the 1,363rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rencontrer is a French verb meaning “to meet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose”.
What does rencontrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to meet
- 2
to come across
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose. 2. Être bien ou mal servi par les événements dans quelque affaire ; deviner juste ou se tromper dans ses conjectures. 3. Commencer à trouver la piste du gibier, en parlant des chiens. 4. Intersecter.
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 rencontrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rencontrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rencontré participle past
- rencontre first-person indicative present
- rencontres indicative present second-person
- rencontrons first-person indicative plural
- rencontrez indicative plural present
- rencontrent indicative plural present
- rencontrais first-person imperfect indicative
- rencontrait imperfect indicative singular
- rencontrions first-person imperfect indicative
- rencontriez imperfect indicative plural
- rencontraient imperfect indicative plural
- rencontrai first-person historic indicative
- rencontras historic indicative past
- rencontra historic indicative past
- rencontrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rencontrer?
- /ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe/
- \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\
- [ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rencontrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rencontrer in French?
rencontrer appears 62 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).