canner
French, verb/ka.ne/
canner is spelled C-A-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canner is a French verb meaning “to cane, to furnish a chair with overlapping strips of cane, reed or rattan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir l’assise ou le dossier d’un siège à l’aide de cannes de jonc”.
What does canner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cane, to furnish a chair with overlapping strips of cane, reed or rattan
- 2
Quebecinformalto can
- 3
slangto die
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir l’assise ou le dossier d’un siège à l’aide de cannes de jonc. 2. Mesurer à l’aide d’une canne. 3. Mourir. → voir caner
verb: 1. Mettre en conserve, faire des conserves de.
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 canner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cannant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canné participle past
- canne first-person indicative present
- cannes indicative present second-person
- cannons first-person indicative plural
- cannez indicative plural present
- cannent indicative plural present
- cannais first-person imperfect indicative
- cannait imperfect indicative singular
- cannions first-person imperfect indicative
- canniez imperfect indicative plural
- cannaient imperfect indicative plural
- cannai first-person historic indicative
- cannas historic indicative past
- canna historic indicative past
- cannâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canner?
- /ka.ne/
- \ka.ne\
- [ka.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is canner in French?
canner appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).