clignoter
French, verb/kli.ɲɔ.te/
clignoter is spelled C-L-I-G-N-O-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 67,389th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clignoter is a French verb meaning “to blink, to flash; to turn on and off repeatedly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cligner des yeux fréquemment”.
What does clignoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blink, to flash; to turn on and off repeatedly
- 2
to indicate (the direction)
- 3
datedto blink repeatedly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cligner des yeux fréquemment. 2. S’allumer et s’éteindre alternativement, en parlant d’une lumière.
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 clignoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clignotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clignoté participle past
- clignote first-person indicative present
- clignotes indicative present second-person
- clignotons first-person indicative plural
- clignotez indicative plural present
- clignotent indicative plural present
- clignotais first-person imperfect indicative
- clignotait imperfect indicative singular
- clignotions first-person imperfect indicative
- clignotiez imperfect indicative plural
- clignotaient imperfect indicative plural
- clignotai first-person historic indicative
- clignotas historic indicative past
- clignota historic indicative past
- clignotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clignoter?
- /kli.ɲɔ.te/
- \kli.ɲɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clignoter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clignoter in French?
clignoter appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).