écorner
French, verb/e.kɔʁ.ne/
écorner is spelled É-C-O-R-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écorner is a French verb meaning “to remove the horns of; dehorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir un animal de ses cornes”.
What does écorner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove the horns of; dehorn
- 2
to chip or dent
- 3
to dog-ear
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir un animal de ses cornes. 2. Endommager un objet en cassant un de ses angles. 3. Élaguer. [note : qui a donné écornat, arbre qui a été élagué]. 4. Diminuer, ôter une partie de quelque chose.
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 écorner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- écornant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- écorné participle past
- écorne first-person indicative present
- écornes indicative present second-person
- écornons first-person indicative plural
- écornez indicative plural present
- écornent indicative plural present
- écornais first-person imperfect indicative
- écornait imperfect indicative singular
- écornions first-person imperfect indicative
- écorniez imperfect indicative plural
- écornaient imperfect indicative plural
- écornai first-person historic indicative
- écornas historic indicative past
- écorna historic indicative past
- écornâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écorner?
- /e.kɔʁ.ne/
- \e.kɔʁ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écorner in French?
écorner appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).