égrener
\e.ɡʁə.ne\
The verdict
“égrener” is uncommon French (frequency #94,418 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,418
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dégarnir de ses grains une plante à épi, un fruit à grappe ou à gousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-egrener · égrener · French
égrener · rank #94,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,418
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH édifia
Nearest frequency peer: édifia (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « égrener »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écrier
écrier
5,586 corpus weight
- écriviez
écriviez
5,585 corpus weight
- édifia
édifia
5,584 corpus weight
- égrener
égrener
5,583 corpus weight
- élancera
élancera
5,582 corpus weight
- énervées
énervées
5,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « égrener » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | égrener |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ɡʁə.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « égrener » en français
Rare enough to double-check
égrener is uncommon French at frequency #94,418 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ɡʁə.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for égrener, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is égrener, spelled É-G-R-E-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dégarnir de ses grains une plante à épi, un fruit à grappe ou à gousse.
- 2Désagréger un matériau granuleux.
- 3Dire des prières, grain à grain, en parlant du chapelet.
- 4Compter une période par unité de temps.
- 5Dire ou énoncer un à un.
- 6Se séparer de sa troupe.
- 7Séparer les grains de semoule ou de riz avec une fourchette pour la préparation d’un taboulé, d’un couscous ou autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how égrener appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des rats pillards qui rôdaient le long des poutrelles égrenaient avec précaution les quelques raisins flétris qui restaient aux vignes.
Ils cherchèrent et firent quelques trouvailles heureuses : de larges tales d’arbustes chargés de baies grasses, qu’ils égrenèrent industrieusement dans leurs seaux.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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