charbonner
French, verb/ʃaʁ.bɔ.ne/
charbonner is spelled C-H-A-R-B-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Charbonner is a French verb meaning “to turn into coal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Noircir avec du charbon”.
What does charbonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn into coal
- 2
to produce coal
Le feu charbonnait en répandant une fumée grise.
- 3
to become coal
- 4
informalto work
- 5
slangto deal (to sell drugs)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Noircir avec du charbon. 2. Dessiner ou écrire avec du charbon. 3. Noircir. 4. Maquiller d’une couleur foncée et d’une manière très voyante.
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 charbonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- charbonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- charbonné participle past
- charbonne first-person indicative present
- charbonnes indicative present second-person
- charbonnons first-person indicative plural
- charbonnez indicative plural present
- charbonnent indicative plural present
- charbonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- charbonnait imperfect indicative singular
- charbonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- charbonniez imperfect indicative plural
- charbonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- charbonnai first-person historic indicative
- charbonnas historic indicative past
- charbonna historic indicative past
- charbonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce charbonner?
- /ʃaʁ.bɔ.ne/
- \ʃaʁ.bɔ.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 charbonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is charbonner in French?
charbonner 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).