contorsionner
French, verb/kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ.ne/
contorsionner is spelled C-O-N-T-O-R-S-I-O-N-N-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contorsionner is a French verb meaning “to contort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des contorsions”.
What does contorsionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to contort
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des contorsions. 2. Faire faire des contorsions à son corps. 3. Détourner des idées.
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 contorsionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- contorsionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- contorsionné participle past
- contorsionne first-person indicative present
- contorsionnes indicative present second-person
- contorsionnons first-person indicative plural
- contorsionnez indicative plural present
- contorsionnent indicative plural present
- contorsionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- contorsionnait imperfect indicative singular
- contorsionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- contorsionniez imperfect indicative plural
- contorsionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- contorsionnai first-person historic indicative
- contorsionnas historic indicative past
- contorsionna historic indicative past
- contorsionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contorsionner?
- /kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ.ne/
- \kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is contorsionner in French?
contorsionner appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).