décorner
French, verb/de.kɔʁ.ne/
décorner is spelled D-É-C-O-R-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décorner is a French verb meaning “to remove the horns of; to dehorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir de ses cornes”.
What does décorner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove the horns of; to dehorn
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir de ses cornes. 2. Redresser ce qui est corné.
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 décorner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- décornant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- décorné participle past
- décorne first-person indicative present
- décornes indicative present second-person
- décornons first-person indicative plural
- décornez indicative plural present
- décornent indicative plural present
- décornais first-person imperfect indicative
- décornait imperfect indicative singular
- décornions first-person imperfect indicative
- décorniez imperfect indicative plural
- décornaient imperfect indicative plural
- décornai first-person historic indicative
- décornas historic indicative past
- décorna historic indicative past
- décornâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décorner?
- /de.kɔʁ.ne/
- \de.kɔʁ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is décorner in French?
décorner appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).