détoner
French, verb/de.tɔ.ne/
détoner is spelled D-É-T-O-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détoner is a French verb meaning “to detonate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’enflammer subitement avec bruit, faire explosion”.
What does détoner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to detonate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’enflammer subitement avec bruit, faire explosion.
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 détoner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détonant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détoné participle past
- détone first-person indicative present
- détones indicative present second-person
- détonons first-person indicative plural
- détonez indicative plural present
- détonent indicative plural present
- détonais first-person imperfect indicative
- détonait imperfect indicative singular
- détonions first-person imperfect indicative
- détoniez imperfect indicative plural
- détonaient imperfect indicative plural
- détonai first-person historic indicative
- détonas historic indicative past
- détona historic indicative past
- détonâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détoner?
- /de.tɔ.ne/
- \de.tɔ.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 détoner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détoner in French?
détoner appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).