aligner
French, verb/a.li.ɲe/
aligner is spelled A-L-I-G-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aligner is a French verb meaning “to align” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ranger, dresser sur une même ligne droite”.
What does aligner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to align
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ranger, dresser sur une même ligne droite. 2. Disposer exactement en ligne droite. 3. Mettre de l’ordre, de la régularité dans ce qu’on écrit ou ce qu’on dit. 4. Rappeler à l’ordre, verbaliser.
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 aligner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- alignant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aligné participle past
- aligne first-person indicative present
- alignes indicative present second-person
- alignons first-person indicative plural
- alignez indicative plural present
- alignent indicative plural present
- alignais first-person imperfect indicative
- alignait imperfect indicative singular
- alignions first-person imperfect indicative
- aligniez imperfect indicative plural
- alignaient imperfect indicative plural
- alignai first-person historic indicative
- alignas historic indicative past
- aligna historic indicative past
- alignâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aligner?
- /a.li.ɲe/
- \a.li.ɲe\
- [a.li.ɲe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aligner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aligner in French?
aligner appears 3.9 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).