mêler
French, verb/mɛ.le/
mêler is a French verb meaning “to mix” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre ensemble des choses et les confondre”.
What does mêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mix
- 2
to meddle in, to interfere in, to get mixed up in
- 3
to shuffle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre ensemble des choses et les confondre. 2. Brouiller, embrouiller les choses de telle sorte qu’on ne puisse pas aisément les dévider ou les séparer. 3. Introduire de façon inextricable, impliquer. 4. Devenir moins pur.
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 mêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mêlé participle past
- mêle first-person indicative present
- mêles indicative present second-person
- mêlons first-person indicative plural
- mêlez indicative plural present
- mêlent indicative plural present
- mêlais first-person imperfect indicative
- mêlait imperfect indicative singular
- mêlions first-person imperfect indicative
- mêliez imperfect indicative plural
- mêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- mêlai first-person historic indicative
- mêlas historic indicative past
- mêla historic indicative past
- mêlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mêler?
- /mɛ.le/
- /me.le/
- \me.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 mêler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mêler in French?
mêler appears 6.6 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).