empoissonner
French, verb/ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/
empoissonner is spelled E-M-P-O-I-S-S-O-N-N-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empoissonner is a French verb meaning “to stock with fish; to populate with fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peupler de poissons”.
What does empoissonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stock with fish; to populate with fish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Peupler de poissons.
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 empoissonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empoissonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empoissonné participle past
- empoissonne first-person indicative present
- empoissonnes indicative present second-person
- empoissonnons first-person indicative plural
- empoissonnez indicative plural present
- empoissonnent indicative plural present
- empoissonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- empoissonnait imperfect indicative singular
- empoissonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- empoissonniez imperfect indicative plural
- empoissonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- empoissonnai first-person historic indicative
- empoissonnas historic indicative past
- empoissonna historic indicative past
- empoissonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empoissonner?
- /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empoissonner in French?
empoissonner appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).