sécréter
French, verb
sécréter is spelled S-É-C-R-É-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sécréter is a French verb meaning “to secrete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, secréter is a different word: “To felt (treat with mercury to make felt): to carrot”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire une sécrétion”.
What does sécréter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to secrete
verb
- 1
To felt (treat with mercury to make felt): to carrot.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire une sécrétion. 2. Exprimer, produire.
verb: 1. En chapellerie, traiter les peaux avec une solution de nitrate de mercure pour en faciliter le feutrage.
verb: 1. Variante de sécréter.
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 sécréter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sécrétant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sécrété participle past
- sécrète first-person indicative present
- sécrètes indicative present second-person
- sécrétons first-person indicative plural
- sécrétez indicative plural present
- sécrètent indicative plural present
- sécrétais first-person imperfect indicative
- sécrétait imperfect indicative singular
- sécrétions first-person imperfect indicative
- sécrétiez imperfect indicative plural
- sécrétaient imperfect indicative plural
- sécrétai first-person historic indicative
- sécrétas historic indicative past
- sécréta historic indicative past
- sécrétâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sécréter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sécréter in French?
sécréter appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).