simuler
French, verb/si.my.le/
simuler is spelled S-I-M-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Simuler is a French verb meaning “to feign, to fake, to put on, to pretend to have” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Feindre, imiter, faire paraître réelle une chose qui n’est pas”.
What does simuler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feign, to fake, to put on, to pretend to have
- 2
to dive (to pretend to be fouled in order to gain an advantage)
- 3
to fake it (to feign to be enjoying sex; to pretend to have an orgasm)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Feindre, imiter, faire paraître réelle une chose qui n’est pas.
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 simuler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- simulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- simulé participle past
- simule first-person indicative present
- simules indicative present second-person
- simulons first-person indicative plural
- simulez indicative plural present
- simulent indicative plural present
- simulais first-person imperfect indicative
- simulait imperfect indicative singular
- simulions first-person imperfect indicative
- simuliez imperfect indicative plural
- simulaient imperfect indicative plural
- simulai first-person historic indicative
- simulas historic indicative past
- simula historic indicative past
- simulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce simuler?
- /si.my.le/
- \si.my.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to simuler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is simuler in French?
simuler appears 2.6 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).