timbrer
French, verb/tɛ̃.bʁe/
timbrer is spelled T-I-M-B-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Timbrer is a French verb meaning “to stamp (attach a postage stamp to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marquer d’un timbre un papier, pour qu’il puisse servir aux usages déterminés par la loi”.
What does timbrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stamp (attach a postage stamp to)
- 2
to stamp (mark with a stamp)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marquer d’un timbre un papier, pour qu’il puisse servir aux usages déterminés par la loi. 2. Apposer un timbre-poste sur une lettre, un timbre de quittance sur un reçu, etc. 3. Marquer une lettre du timbre d’un bureau de poste, qui fait connaître soit le lieu et le jour du départ, soit le jour de l’arrivée. 4. Imprimer la marque d’une administration, d’une maison de commerce ; estampiller.
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 timbrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- timbrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- timbré participle past
- timbre first-person indicative present
- timbres indicative present second-person
- timbrons first-person indicative plural
- timbrez indicative plural present
- timbrent indicative plural present
- timbrais first-person imperfect indicative
- timbrait imperfect indicative singular
- timbrions first-person imperfect indicative
- timbriez imperfect indicative plural
- timbraient imperfect indicative plural
- timbrai first-person historic indicative
- timbras historic indicative past
- timbra historic indicative past
- timbrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce timbrer?
- /tɛ̃.bʁe/
- \tɛ̃.bʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is timbrer in French?
timbrer appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).