canonner
French, verb/ka.nɔ.ne/
canonner is spelled C-A-N-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canonner is a French verb meaning “to cannon, cannonade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Battre à coups de canon”.
What does canonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cannon, cannonade
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Battre à coups de canon. 2. Faire un bruit ressemblant à celui produit par un canon. 3. Boire un verre de vin.
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 canonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- canonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canonné participle past
- canonne first-person indicative present
- canonnes indicative present second-person
- canonnons first-person indicative plural
- canonnez indicative plural present
- canonnent indicative plural present
- canonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- canonnait imperfect indicative singular
- canonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- canonniez imperfect indicative plural
- canonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- canonnai first-person historic indicative
- canonnas historic indicative past
- canonna historic indicative past
- canonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canonner?
- /ka.nɔ.ne/
- \ka.nɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is canonner in French?
canonner appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).