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accréditer

French, verb/a.kʁe.di.te/

accréditer is a French verb meaning “accredit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre quelqu’un en crédit ; rendre digne de confiance”.

What does accréditer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    accredit

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Mettre quelqu’un en crédit ; rendre digne de confiance. 2. Faire reconnaître un ambassadeur, un négociateur, etc. 3. Rendre crédible, vraisemblable, donner cours. 4. Devenir plausible.

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 accréditer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • accréditant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • accrédité participle past
  • accrédite first-person indicative present
  • accrédites indicative present second-person
  • accréditons first-person indicative plural
  • accréditez indicative plural present
  • accréditent indicative plural present
  • accréditais first-person imperfect indicative
  • accréditait imperfect indicative singular
  • accréditions first-person imperfect indicative
  • accréditiez imperfect indicative plural
  • accréditaient imperfect indicative plural
  • accréditai first-person historic indicative
  • accréditas historic indicative past
  • accrédita historic indicative past
  • accréditâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce accréditer?

  • /a.kʁe.di.te/
  • \a.kʁe.di.te\
  • [a.kʁe.di.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 accréditer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is accréditer in French?

accréditer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).