caréner
French, verb/ka.ʁe.ne/
caréner is spelled C-A-R-É-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written French, the 291,657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caréner is a French verb meaning “to careen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réparer, remettre en état la carène d’un bâtiment”.
What does caréner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to careen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réparer, remettre en état la carène d’un bâtiment. 2. Modifier le profil d’un objet (généralement un véhicule) ou d’un bâtiment pour le rendre plus aérodynamique ou hydrodynamique.
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 caréner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- carénant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caréné participle past
- carène first-person indicative present
- carènes indicative present second-person
- carénons first-person indicative plural
- carénez indicative plural present
- carènent indicative plural present
- carénais first-person imperfect indicative
- carénait imperfect indicative singular
- carénions first-person imperfect indicative
- caréniez imperfect indicative plural
- carénaient imperfect indicative plural
- carénai first-person historic indicative
- carénas historic indicative past
- caréna historic indicative past
- carénâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caréner?
- /ka.ʁe.ne/
- \ka.ʁe.ne\
- [ka.ʁe.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caréner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caréner in French?
caréner appears about once in every 87 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).