cramponner
French, verb/kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/
cramponner is spelled C-R-A-M-P-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cramponner is a French verb meaning “to attach with, or drive a spike or hook into” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attacher avec un crampon”.
What does cramponner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attach with, or drive a spike or hook into
- 2
to staple, stud (a shoe); attach a crampon, spike, or hook to
- 3
to stud or attach calks (to a horseshoe)
- 4
to shoe (a horse or mule) using a studded horseshoe
- 5
to cling onto, attach oneself to (something or someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attacher avec un crampon. 2. Fixer des crampons sur un objet, une semelle, une chaussure… 3. Fixer des crampons aux pieds d’un cheval, d’un mulet, etc., lors d’un ferrage à glace. 4. Ferrer avec des fers à crampon, en parlant d'un cheval.
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 cramponner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cramponnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cramponné participle past
- cramponne first-person indicative present
- cramponnes indicative present second-person
- cramponnons first-person indicative plural
- cramponnez indicative plural present
- cramponnent indicative plural present
- cramponnais first-person imperfect indicative
- cramponnait imperfect indicative singular
- cramponnions first-person imperfect indicative
- cramponniez imperfect indicative plural
- cramponnaient imperfect indicative plural
- cramponnai first-person historic indicative
- cramponnas historic indicative past
- cramponna historic indicative past
- cramponnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cramponner?
- /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/
- \kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cramponner in French?
cramponner appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).