dédaigner
French, verb/de.dɛ.ɲe/
dédaigner is spelled D-É-D-A-I-G-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dédaigner is a French verb meaning “to scorn, to despise, to disdain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Considérer avec dédain, regarder comme au-dessous de soi, comme indigne de ses désirs”.
What does dédaigner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scorn, to despise, to disdain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Considérer avec dédain, regarder comme au-dessous de soi, comme indigne de ses désirs.
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 dédaigner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dédaignant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dédaigné participle past
- dédaigne first-person indicative present
- dédaignes indicative present second-person
- dédaignons first-person indicative plural
- dédaignez indicative plural present
- dédaignent indicative plural present
- dédaignais first-person imperfect indicative
- dédaignait imperfect indicative singular
- dédaignions first-person imperfect indicative
- dédaigniez imperfect indicative plural
- dédaignaient imperfect indicative plural
- dédaignai first-person historic indicative
- dédaignas historic indicative past
- dédaigna historic indicative past
- dédaignâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dédaigner?
- /de.dɛ.ɲe/
- /de.de.ɲe/
- \de.de.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dédaigner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dédaigner in French?
dédaigner 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).