riposter
French, verb/ʁi.pɔs.te/
riposter is spelled R-I-P-O-S-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Riposter is a French verb meaning “to retort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répondre, repartir vivement et sur-le-champ pour repousser quelque raillerie”.
What does riposter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retort
Near-synonym: contre-attaquer
- 2
to ripost
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Répondre, repartir vivement et sur-le-champ pour repousser quelque raillerie. 2. Répondre vivement à une injure, à un coup, à un acte quelconque. 3. Parer et porter la botte du même mouvement.
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 riposter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ripostant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- riposté participle past
- riposte first-person indicative present
- ripostes indicative present second-person
- ripostons first-person indicative plural
- ripostez indicative plural present
- ripostent indicative plural present
- ripostais first-person imperfect indicative
- ripostait imperfect indicative singular
- ripostions first-person imperfect indicative
- ripostiez imperfect indicative plural
- ripostaient imperfect indicative plural
- ripostai first-person historic indicative
- ripostas historic indicative past
- riposta historic indicative past
- ripostâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce riposter?
- /ʁi.pɔs.te/
- \ʁi.pɔs.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 riposter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is riposter in French?
riposter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).