arraisonner
French, verb/a.ʁɛ.zɔ.ne/
arraisonner is spelled A-R-R-A-I-S-O-N-N-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arraisonner is a French verb meaning “to hail (e.g. a taxicab)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chercher à amener quelqu’un à un avis, à une opinion, en lui donnant des raisons pour le déterminer”.
What does arraisonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hail (e.g. a taxicab)
- 2
to arraign
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chercher à amener quelqu’un à un avis, à une opinion, en lui donnant des raisons pour le déterminer. 2. Reconnaître le chargement, la destination, l’état sanitaire, etc., d’un navire qui aborde.
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 arraisonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- arraisonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- arraisonné participle past
- arraisonne first-person indicative present
- arraisonnes indicative present second-person
- arraisonnons first-person indicative plural
- arraisonnez indicative plural present
- arraisonnent indicative plural present
- arraisonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- arraisonnait imperfect indicative singular
- arraisonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- arraisonniez imperfect indicative plural
- arraisonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- arraisonnai first-person historic indicative
- arraisonnas historic indicative past
- arraisonna historic indicative past
- arraisonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arraisonner?
- /a.ʁɛ.zɔ.ne/
- /a.ʁe.zɔ.ne/
- \a.ʁɛ.zɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arraisonner in French?
arraisonner appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).