chiffonner
French, verb/ʃi.fɔ.ne/
chiffonner is spelled C-H-I-F-F-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 138,201st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiffonner is a French verb meaning “to crumple, crease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Froisser, mettre en chiffon, déranger l’ajustement, trousser”.
What does chiffonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crumple, crease
- 2
colloquialto bother, to perplex
Il y a quelque chose qui me chiffonne dans cette affaire.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Froisser, mettre en chiffon, déranger l’ajustement, trousser. 2. Être peu régulier mais non sans quelque agrément, en parlant d’un visage. 3. Contrarier. 4. S’occuper de petits travaux d’aiguille.
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 chiffonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chiffonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chiffonné participle past
- chiffonne first-person indicative present
- chiffonnes indicative present second-person
- chiffonnons first-person indicative plural
- chiffonnez indicative plural present
- chiffonnent indicative plural present
- chiffonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- chiffonnait imperfect indicative singular
- chiffonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- chiffonniez imperfect indicative plural
- chiffonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- chiffonnai first-person historic indicative
- chiffonnas historic indicative past
- chiffonna historic indicative past
- chiffonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiffonner?
- /ʃi.fɔ.ne/
- \ʃi.fɔ.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 chiffonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiffonner in French?
chiffonner appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).