échancrer
French, verb/e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/
échancrer is spelled É-C-H-A-N-C-R-E-R (9 letters). Échancrer is a French verb meaning “to scallop (cut in the shape of a crescent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tailler, évider, découper en forme de croissant, de portion de cercle, en parlant des étoffes, de la toile…”.
What does échancrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scallop (cut in the shape of a crescent)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tailler, évider, découper en forme de croissant, de portion de cercle, en parlant des étoffes, de la toile, du cuir, du bois, etc.
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 échancrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- échancrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- échancré participle past
- échancre first-person indicative present
- échancres indicative present second-person
- échancrons first-person indicative plural
- échancrez indicative plural present
- échancrent indicative plural present
- échancrais first-person imperfect indicative
- échancrait imperfect indicative singular
- échancrions first-person imperfect indicative
- échancriez imperfect indicative plural
- échancraient imperfect indicative plural
- échancrai first-person historic indicative
- échancras historic indicative past
- échancra historic indicative past
- échancrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échancrer?
- /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/
- \e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to échancrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.