French, verb/twi.te/
twitter is spelled T-W-I-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written French, the 1,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Twitter is a French verb meaning “to tweet (to post to Twitter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Publier un contenu (texte court, photo ou vidéo) sur Internet par le réseau Twitter”.
What does twitter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tweet (to post to Twitter)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Publier un contenu (texte court, photo ou vidéo) sur Internet par le réseau Twitter.
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 twitter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- twittant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- twitté participle past
- twitte first-person indicative present
- twittes indicative present second-person
- twittons first-person indicative plural
- twittez indicative plural present
- twittent indicative plural present
- twittais first-person imperfect indicative
- twittait imperfect indicative singular
- twittions first-person imperfect indicative
- twittiez imperfect indicative plural
- twittaient imperfect indicative plural
- twittai first-person historic indicative
- twittas historic indicative past
- twitta historic indicative past
- twittâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce twitter?
- /twi.te/
- \twi.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 twitter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is twitter in French?
twitter appears 55 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).