confiner
French, verb/kɔ̃.fi.ne/
confiner is spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confiner is a French verb meaning “to confine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Toucher aux confins d’un pays, d’une terre, etc”.
What does confiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confine
- 2
to border (on)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Toucher aux confins d’un pays, d’une terre, etc. 2. Toucher à, être voisin de, être très proche de. 3. Reléguer dans un certain lieu. 4. Cantonner à, enfermer dans, une caractéristique ou une fonction.
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 confiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- confinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- confiné participle past
- confine first-person indicative present
- confines indicative present second-person
- confinons first-person indicative plural
- confinez indicative plural present
- confinent indicative plural present
- confinais first-person imperfect indicative
- confinait imperfect indicative singular
- confinions first-person imperfect indicative
- confiniez imperfect indicative plural
- confinaient imperfect indicative plural
- confinai first-person historic indicative
- confinas historic indicative past
- confina historic indicative past
- confinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confiner?
- /kɔ̃.fi.ne/
- \kɔ̃.fi.ne\
- [kɔ̃.fi.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 confiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confiner in French?
confiner appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).