dysfonctionner
French, verb/dis.fɔ̃k.sjɔ.ne/
dysfonctionner is spelled D-Y-S-F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dysfonctionner is a French verb meaning “to malfunction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mal fonctionner”.
What does dysfonctionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to malfunction
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mal fonctionner.
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 dysfonctionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dysfonctionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dysfonctionné participle past
- dysfonctionne first-person indicative present
- dysfonctionnes indicative present second-person
- dysfonctionnons first-person indicative plural
- dysfonctionnez indicative plural present
- dysfonctionnent indicative plural present
- dysfonctionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- dysfonctionnait imperfect indicative singular
- dysfonctionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- dysfonctionniez imperfect indicative plural
- dysfonctionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- dysfonctionnai first-person historic indicative
- dysfonctionnas historic indicative past
- dysfonctionna historic indicative past
- dysfonctionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dysfonctionner?
- /dis.fɔ̃k.sjɔ.ne/
- \dis.fɔ̃k.sjɔ.ne\
- [dis.fɔ̃k.sjɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dysfonctionner in French?
dysfonctionner appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).