alléger
French, verb/a.le.ʒe/
alléger is spelled A-L-L-É-G-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alléger is a French verb meaning “to lighten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soulager d’une partie d’un fardeau”.
What does alléger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lighten
- 2
to alleviate, relieve
- 3
to reduce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Soulager d’une partie d’un fardeau. 2. Diminuer, que ce soit une personne ou un objet. 3. Rendre un cheval plus léger en avant ou en arrière, suivant la position du corps du cavalier.
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 alléger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- allégeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- allégé participle past
- allège first-person indicative present
- allèges indicative present second-person
- allégeons first-person indicative plural
- allégez indicative plural present
- allègent indicative plural present
- allégeais first-person imperfect indicative
- allégeait imperfect indicative singular
- allégions first-person imperfect indicative
- allégiez imperfect indicative plural
- allégeaient imperfect indicative plural
- allégeai first-person historic indicative
- allégeas historic indicative past
- allégea historic indicative past
- allégeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alléger?
- /a.le.ʒe/
- /al.le.ʒe/
- \a(l).le.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alléger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alléger in French?
alléger appears 2.5 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).