clencher
French, verb/klɑ̃.ʃe/
clencher is spelled C-L-E-N-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clencher is a French verb meaning “to use the doorknob of a door so as to open or close it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller à fond de train”.
What does clencher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to use the doorknob of a door so as to open or close it
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller à fond de train.
verb: 1. Actionner la poignée d’une porte, pour l’ouvrir ou, parfois, la fermer.
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 clencher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clenchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clenché participle past
- clenche first-person indicative present
- clenches indicative present second-person
- clenchons first-person indicative plural
- clenchez indicative plural present
- clenchent indicative plural present
- clenchais first-person imperfect indicative
- clenchait imperfect indicative singular
- clenchions first-person imperfect indicative
- clenchiez imperfect indicative plural
- clenchaient imperfect indicative plural
- clenchai first-person historic indicative
- clenchas historic indicative past
- clencha historic indicative past
- clenchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clencher?
- /klɑ̃.ʃe/
- \klɑ̃.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clencher in French?
clencher appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).